Word: desisted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respective states to coddle or cudgel the delinquent as they see fit. Reform schools should be the first to become rehabilitation centers, staffed with behavorial scientists and equipped to offer the best in education. There is no youngster that cannot with competent help and guidance be made to desist from crime. And the cost of rehabilitating the most recalcitrant youngster will not be one tenth of the eventual cost to society if he is allowed to lead a life of crime. Has anyone ever attempted to compute what this type of criminal must cost society in the course...
...cannot simply insist that the US give up its conception of China and the USSR as aggressors--and even Dulles did not have such a naive view of our opponents. Instead, a full, complex, and trustworthy analysis of these nations must be produced, such that we can with confidence desist from needless threatening counter-moves...
...political static from the south by playing soothing mood music. Souvanna, who thinks that the Communist-dominated Pathet Lao will call off their guerrillas if only somebody will talk to them nicely and invite them into the government, called on Prince Boun, "whose patriotism is well known," to desist from his "initiative." Then he went off to visit the King Savang Vatthana. But even as he spoke, someone blew up the waterworks in Vientiane. Souvanna sadly ordered all of Prince Boun's relatives rounded up for questioning-all except the prince's brother Boun Orm, who is Souvanna...
...United States," said President Eisenhower, "deplores the unilateral action of the Soviet Union in supplying aircraft and other equipment for military purposes to the Congo . . . The United States takes a most serious view of this action by the Soviet Union ... I urge the Soviet Union to desist. The United States in tends to give its support [to whatever action] the United Nations finds necessary within the limits of its charter to keep peace in this region...
...Security Council that "certain assistance from outside" was keeping the threat of civil war alive and gravely handicapping the U.N.'s task. In Washington, President Eisenhower considered the Russian intervention so serious that he had a special statement ready at his press conference warning the Soviets "to desist from unilateral activities." Ike charitably admitted there was no direct evidence of Russian military pilots operating the 11-yushins. But the pilots were certainly not Congolese-the Congo has nobody capable of flying a two-engined plane. To all this the Russians retorted that they would continue aiding Lumumba as long...