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Word: desistant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second bill, the Fair Education Practices Act, empowered the State Board of Education to issue cease and desist orders to any school or college found guilty of discriminating unfairly in admissions on grounds of race, religion, or nationality...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Poll Shows General Court's Views on Harvard | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

...those which nightclub owners the world over love to pass out to their customers. Tootled shrilly by Argentine Ambassador Oscar Tascherest in the Imperial's supper club, it profoundly irritated the girl companion of a young British ex-officer named John Edwards. The Briton suggested that the Argentine desist. When Tascherest ignored the suggestion, Edwards took a tumbler of water and dropped a tiny trickle on the ambassador's head "to cool him off a bit." Tascherest retaliated by hurling a highball, with glass, at Edwards. "I thought then," explained Edwards later, "that he just wanted to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Tweet-Tweet | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...said that it was also studying the ads of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike), its subsidiary American Cigarette, & Cigar Co. (Pall Mall), and Philip Morris & Co., and might bring cease & desist orders against them. FTC investigators have found, for example, that despite claims of being "easier on the throat," king-size cigarettes (such as Pall Mall) actually contain "more tobacco and therefore more harmful substances" than are found in an ordinary cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Smoke Screen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...conceded that there had been some ad changes. It said it had issued the cease & desist orders anyway, "to prevent the continuation or resumption" of such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Smoke Screen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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