Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoped for is a walled-off truce, but even this will be impossible, he points out, unless "the military strength of the Western nations [is maintained] at a level so great that Russia will not be willing to attack us ... I do not believe we can afford to refrain from accelerating our arms program beyond the present year. Even a delay of this length of time may be unwise...
...situation of almost completely unrelieved pathos and tragedy. His heroine, Magda Sorel (Soprano Patricia Neway), applies for a visa to join her resistance-leader husband, who has been hounded out of his unnamed country by the secret police. "The Consul" himself never appears; his secretary chants a bored refrain to all comers...
...slightest personal interest in the welfare of Lamont as an institution, such a memory will be quite effective in keeping me from taking books out over a vacation, and using extralegal means for avoiding an overdue fine (which is what the fellows in question did). Quite similarly I would refrain from doing what they did if the University had ordered their right hand lopped off, but the University could not do that for it would be barbarity. Yet the action the University did take is just a subtle form of barbarity, barbarous because it is pointlessly harsh...
Last week Chief of Naval Operations Forrest Sherman brusquely ordered Crommelin to "refrain from public statements . . . which are critical of the Department of Defense." Defiantly, just one hour after receiving the order, he addressed the Park-Presidio Optimist Club; the next day, the San Francisco Business League. His pitch was the same but he had a new preamble to key passages: "I don't intend this as criticism . . . you can decide for yourselves...
...jobs and daily life after the school had finished its work in the basic essentials. Long ago, John Dewey himself had complained of the cluttered burden the schools had to carry: "The public school is the willing packhorse of our social system; it is the true hero of the refrain: Let George do it." If George were only less willing, he might indeed be more able...