Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev sneered at Tito and other "ideological windbags" who "exist only because of the alms they receive from imperialist countries in the form of leftover goods ... I cannot refrain from asking the question which deeply concerns all Communists everywhere. Why do the imperialist bosses, while striving to obliterate from the face of the earth the socialist states and squash the Communist movement, at the same time finance one of the socialist countries, granting that country credits and free gifts? . . . Everyone knows that the imperialists never give money to anyone without a purpose, just for the sake of 'beautiful eyes...
...Golf pros put up with a lot to compete for more than $200,000 in prize money at Business Engineer George S. May's four Tam O'Shanter tournaments in Chicago each summer. They pin numbers on their backs, refrain from throwing clubs when they flub shots, even mind their language. But when the Professional Golfer's Association refused to let May pocket all the entry fees to help pay the expenses of running his extravaganza, the well-heeled promoter took offense. He called off the world's richest tournaments...
...much to ask that the only daily paper serving the Harvard community refrain from using its monopoly position to further its Democratic interests. Ron Nuttall...
...with the less educated. His appeal can only be made in language and logic which would be incomprehensible to the crowds on the Common. Ironically, this limitation on his audience destroys him. For his logic, exposed to the least sophisticated analysis, becomes illogic, and his language becomes the old refrain of hate...
...Workers' President Walter Reuther vowed in a speech at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City that labor would enter the coming year's collective bargaining "mindful of our broad economic and social responsibilities." Did this declaration mean that Reuther would urge his fellow labor leaders to refrain from pushing wages up during an economic lull, so as to avoid increasing business costs and consumer prices? Did it mean that, since labor's overall output per man-hour has increased very little over the past two years, labor would concentrate on upping productivity rather than wages...