Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to join its group; their analysis this morning proved very penetrating. To continue with this narrative about two minutes later a young man attired in a pair of army fatigues appeared at the door prepared obviously to defy the ultimatum. Having been asked once again if he would refrain from disturbing the lecture, he pointed a drill at Professor Schlesinger and began to turn it in a manner which I assumed to point out more clearly his complete superiority and utter disdain. I do feel very sorry for that boy; he could not have realized what a foolish thing...
...rule can be a stringent whip if performed, as it should be, on the split instant. St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897), the "Little Flower," once advised a novice: "When someone knocks at your door, or when you are called, you must practice mortification and refrain from doing even one additional stitch before answering. I have practiced this myself, and I assure you that it is a source of much peace...
...Peace." The Bussian publics; yet who wold be so naive or malicious as to call Russia a republic. I am proud that the united State is a republic; and if Mr. Lilienthal wants to serve his country as much as he says he does he would do well to refrain from besmirching that word. I care nothing for the money involved in this argument, but I would feel amply rewarded if Mr. Lilienthal would stop waving the bloody turban and present his point of view with as little cheap demagoguery as possible. Taylor J. Smith...
Understanding & Confetti. In Mexico City the Vice President paid a visit to the renowned Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where for the first time in memory the organ boomed out The Star-Spangled Banner. Foreign statesmen on official tours usually refrain from visiting the shrine, possibly out of fear of offending the once ardent anticlerical sentiment that still lingers faintly among many educated Mexicans. But at the church, Archbishop Luis María Martínez said to Nixon: "You have shown understanding in coming to this shrine, for it is the heart of Mexico." When Nixon came...
International Incident. To avoid serious clashes, Britain, Argentina and Chile signed an agreement in 1949 to refrain from sending warships south of the 60th parallel. Last month a Foreign Office spokesman in London issued a warning that Britain might be forced to disregard the three-nation pact if "incidents" kept occurring in Antarctica. The point was that the General San Martin's new base not only lay well within Britain's claimed slice of Antarctica but was near the announced starting point of a planned British-New Zealand attempt to make the first overland trek across the antarctic...