Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer charges that his threats were empty blasts by offering Parliament the "American excuse." To counter any clamor at Britain's humiliation by Egypt, Eden might well bare his breast to the foe, move to the brink of war, and then, upon anguished outcries from the U.S., refrain from fighting in order to save the Anglo-American alliance...
...their fight too, gave delegates anti-Kohler Kits containing union propaganda, campaign buttons (Don't Buy Kohler), and lists of merchants and contractors who do buy Kohler. The biggest meeting of U.S. plumbers in history cheered a unanimous "aye" to a resolution urging federal agencies to "refrain from granting contracts to Kohler, or purchase of its products." Washington of course will ignore the plea, continue to buy from the lowest bidder. But the U.A.W. won the sympathy of the men who install plumbing...
...selecting a Roman Catholic lord mayor in Jerusalem, it would, however, be good news if Israelis-in response to the "wonderful gesture"-would stop campaigning against the handful of Christian missionaries in their midst. High time that in religious controversies all parties shall confine themselves to debating-and refrain from baiting...
...smallpox; the government* was determined to halt its spread and annual flare-ups caused by unvaccinated nomads like the Bakhtiari. The tribesman was amazed that the great, remote world of big government could be interested in his health. At first he hesitated, but as the loudspeaker took up the refrain, "Better one small scar on your arm than a lot of pocks on your face," he relented. "Come and be vaccinated," the chief ordered his band...
...student debating society in the U.S., be allowed to hear a speech this week by Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss? Though unanimously disapproving the invitation, the trustees answered yes by a 26-4 vote. The society, they explained, obviously had no "subversive intent.' Therefore the trustees had decided to "refrain from authoritarian censorship.'' ¶ The University of Illinois announced that it had expelled 23 students for cheating-one for breaking into a professor's room and stealing an accounting exam, two for mimeographing the exam, all three for selling copies for $5 apiece, and 20 more...