Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FEDERAL COMPETITION with business will be cut under new orders of Budget Director Rowland Hughes. All Government agencies have been ordered to discontinue all possible competitive businesses costing more than $5,000 annually and "to refrain from starting commercial activities which might be competitive with private business...
...chairman of the Investigations subcommittee, Lamont considers McCarthyism an uninterrupted threat to personal freedom. "It is a great responsibility," he says, "to find oneself suddenly in the front lines of the continuing battle of McCarthy versus the American people." But always the freewheeling rebel, Lamont could not refrain from adding: "It is a privilege...
...presenting arguments on both sides of the case. Dewey dwelt at length on reasons why the President should seek reelection. His arguments were easily boiled down: the party, the country and the world need Ike. But when he turned to his other favorite topic, Citizen Dewey could not refrain from describing the pleasures of a man who chooses not to run again. Since he stepped out of the governor's office in Albany, he said, he has really been living: into the office at 10 a.m., out by 6, no midnight crisis that must be met before dawn...
...done much to stimulate Japan's search for its old look. Hatoyama is the first Prime Minister to make the pilgrimage since the Japanese surrender; he did so in defiance of Article 20 of the MacArthur constitution, which lays down that "the state and its organs shall refrain from . . . religious activity." And although Hatoyama himself is a Christian, fond of caroling hymns like The Old Rugged Cross, he solemnly reported his appointment to Amaterasu O-mikami, the sun goddess who, Shintoists believe, passed the divine right of succession to the present imperial family...
...from exile" expired, Arbenz would be back primed with money and promises of Communist guns for a try at regaining power in Guatemala. The rumors were partly based on the fact that Arbenz has been conspiratorially busy; Mexico's government has repeatedly cautioned its numerous Guatemalan exiles to refrain from "political activity." Arbenz' arrogant refusal to do so has left a bad taste with many Mexicans; the leading daily Excelsior last week sourly cartooned him as a hen flying off and leaving a brood of chicks marked with the hammer and sickle. Stopping in Paris en route...