Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issued a rare condemnation from his pulpit, denouncing Baby Doll as "revolting," "deplorable," '"morally repellent" and "grievously offensive to Christian standards of decency." Declared His Eminence: "In solicitude for the welfare of souls entrusted to my care and the welfare of my country, I exhort Catholic people to refrain from patronizing this film under pain...
Allies at Odds. In cold anger, Lodge hastily added a proviso to the U.S. resolution urging all U.N. members "to refrain from giving any military, economic or financial assistance to Israel so long as it has not complied with this resolution." In presenting the resolution to the Council, Lodge spoke with bluntness rare towards allies. The U.S., he said, does not believe that "in any circumstances this [Anglo-French] ultimatum would be justifiable or ... consistent with the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter." In the debate that followed, the U.N.'s familiar two-sided world came unstuck. Sobolev...
...urgent message to Ben-Gurion, the white-haired old leader who held peace or war in his hands. In a statement the President informed the U.S. people of the new crisis and of his messages to Ben-Gurion. The President directed his ambassadors to urge the Arab countries to "refrain from any action which could lead to hostilities...
President Eisenhower protested the threatened Anglo-French troop movements, and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge offered a U.N. resolution which implied a condemnation of them. The resolution called on Israel to cease fire and withdraw to its borders and asked U.N. members to refrain from using force in the troubled area...
...accepted. But a question which seems inherent in Western statements is whether nationalization of a waterway so important to so many nations should ever come under the unquestioned rule of one nation. Egypt's blockade of Israeli ships long before nationalization was ever considered proves that nations will not refrain from using territorial control over a waterway as a tool of national policy. When Dulles stated that the canal should be isolated from national politics, he stated a principle which should be firmly supported...