Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others throughout the West practice in secret. And this is not surprising, for it is little more than 65 years since aged Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, publicly declared that "my advice to the Latter-Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." The Mormons have condemned plural marriage ever since, and do not recognize the "Fundamentalists" as Mormons...
...arms policy, the United States must uphold its determination to avert a ruinous armaments race in the area. The U.S. should certainly refrain from attempting to outdo the Soviets in winning Arab friendship, even if arms shipments are the only way to Arab hearts. Whatever Mr. Dulles' cherished plans for a Middle Eastern defense arrangement directed against the Soviet Union, he should remember that in Arab eyes, enemy number one is not Russia, but Israel...
Last week the U.S. Government filed civil and criminal antitrust suits against all four organizations, charging them with conspiracy to refrain from competing with each other 1) for the management of artists, and 2) in the organization and maintenance of audience associations. The complaints specified that artists were practically forced to join one agency or the other to get interstate bookings, since independent agencies were all but excluded from the business...
...should the Chinese Communist government sign an armistice or in some other manner pledge to refrain from military operations against Formosa, the last reason for nonrecognition and nonadmission will have been removed. When, under such conditions, Peking adopts normal attitudes toward foreign nationals, liberates them from her jails and permits their exit, when the usual facilities for the functioning of diplomatic representatives are provided in Peking, the time will have come to revise our position on recognition and admission...
...tung's troops entered in 1949, chuckled with sophisticated delight at such jokes as the story of a young officer fresh from the caves of Yenan who washed the dust from his rice ration in a hotel toilet bowl. "Just wait and see," went a confident Shanghai refrain. "We'll change the Communists...