Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's first Socialist-run government in eight years, has had frustratingly little chance to carry out Socialist policies. Like most Socialists a visceral pacifist, he has been compelled by events to call up troops to wage war in Algeria. Pledged to enact the welfare state, he must refrain from Socialist economics because the Algerian campaign eats up all his revenues. With only the field of foreign affairs left in which to strike popular attitudes, Mollet and Pineau have accordingly thrown themselves with ideological ardor into pooh-poohing the Soviet military menace, urging disarmament, and gigging...
...employer. The song landed with a sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers had lived, like Composer Merle Travis' coalminer father, in company towns-drab, depressed communities where the worker traded at a company store,* rented a company house...
...Senate last week, Georgia's Walter F. George read a manifesto signed by 82 Southern Representatives and 19 Southern Senators. It pledged the signers to exert "all lawful means" toward reversing the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, and it appealed to Southerners "to scrupulously refrain from disorder and lawless acts...
...organized within three months after the end of the combat and acts of violence." But "first, the guns must be silenced." He promised to discuss a new deal with the elected leaders that would respect "the originality and rights of the Moslem community," but he reiterated the familiar refrain: "Algeria is and will remain indissolubly linked to France." If these offers were rejected, "France would then be constrained to mobilize all her resources to insure by every means the security of the population...
...liberal New Republic last week, "seems to be about the strongest bond liberals have these days." Five pages later, the New Republic exposed the impoverished truth of the statement by taking off on its fellow-liberal weeklies, the Nation and the Reporter. Reason: they are "advising liberals to refrain from supporting Adlai Stevenson...