Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he didn't expect to see cards like that placed on the table. "The Russians," he said, "never play anything but clubs." Now, however, that there was something else to wait for -the Geneva conference in April-anti-EDC voices were again heard in Paris. Their new refrain: France must not provoke the Russians by approving EDC so long as there is a chance of ending the Indo-China war at Geneva...
Replied Dulles unsmilingly: "I could keep awake indefinitely under the stimulus of new ideas. I find it very difficult to keep awake when an old refrain is played again, again and again...
...charming fellow," one explained recently. "You can get drunk with him, sing songs, swap gamy jokes. The picture isn't all black. He's done a lot of good for the country." El Benefactor Trujillo kept order and paid his debts, the refrain went on, and above all, he was a friend of the U.S. and U.S. business...
...getting Right-Winger Attilio Pic-cioni as his Vice Premier. There were signs this week that politicians from left to right might have become enough aware of the common peril to rally around Fanfani. Even one group of Monarchists hinted that they might support him-or at least refrain from opposing...
Because the Papists persecute the truth, should we on that account refrain from repressing error...