Word: desisting
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...have in the past few days been called everything from assassin to near hero and perpetrator of overambitious publicity stunts. Now, I have further been taunted by having my beloved Mt. Hood spirited across the river to Washington on the pages of TIME, Feb. 27. Please, sir, desist from this journalistic gerrymandering; give us back our mountain and let Washington Republicans be content to scare Adlai with such common threats as airplane trouble...
...ordered that the Southern rail and bus companies be "required to cease and desist, on or before Jan. 10, 1956, and thereafter to abstain from practicing the undue and unreasonable prejudice and disadvantage found to exist...
...increase the self-confidence, the will to conquer, and the capabilities of the Soviet-Communist empire. Those who think otherwise would do well to review our recognition of the Soviet Government, and British recognition of the Central People's Government. The Soviet Government gave promises - to desist, to refrain, to perform and to permit. Which of its promises has the Soviet Union honored? In what respect have its Communist rulers altered their over-all objectives...
...according to news dispatches, is having the White House squirrels caught in box traps and carted many miles away from the White House because they have been scratching his putting green. I strenuously protest this undertaking. I urge the President of the U.S. to cease and desist before he does permanent and irreparable damage to an American tradition." Squirrel in Hand. Neuberger was briefly interrupted by Kentucky's Democratic Senator Alben Barkley, a veteran performer. Asked Barkley: "Would it be inappropriate here to paraphrase a quotation from the Bible, 'Foxes have holes, the birds of the air have...
...hand new ammunition to those who have been warning the free world against "peaceful coexistence" blandishments from the Red camp. The best explanation of the Chinese Communist motive lay in Asian politics. India's Nehru and others have recently been pressing the Chinese Communists to desist from subversive activities in other countries. The Reds will not-in a sense, cannot-drop their underground groups. To ease the pressure from Nehru they chose to publicize the trial of 13 Americans whom they called "spies...