Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panthers make little secret of stockpiling arms; where it is legal, they brandish them in public. "Off the pigs"-kill the police-is a frequent Panther refrain. What the Panthers view as an extermination plot, says one federal official, is the human response of a cop confronted by someone who has publicly vowed to kill him. "That's no plot," the official says. "It's a perfectly natural reaction by a policeman facing someone who has said, even boasted, that he is prepared to shoot it out." That, added to the perennial edginess of a white policeman...
...other fact was the inclusion in our report of an unanimous recommendation that the Faculty refrain from voting on the report. Clearly, the minority, all of whom joined in his view, believed that a higher issue was at stake than an opportunity to win in the Faculty a majority that it could not win in the Committee. My impression is that this higher issue was the recognition that a number of important and complex principles were bound together in Project Cambridge and that a simple vote would not reveal which principles were being supported and which were being rejected...
...words were wistful and defensive, and they raised an issue that has long stirred controversy in the U.S.: civilian limitations on the use of military power. Most top military officers refrain from public alibis, criticism and rebukes. But many privately agree with Westmoreland's complaint, and there are signs that a stab-in-the-back, or Versailles, complex is developing. Some officers contend that they were not permitted to move quickly, massively and without restrictions-either on bombing targets or in hitting enemy sanctuaries along Viet Nam's borders-once the decision was made in 1965 to commit...
...speakers seemed to make much of an impression. Coretta King, Goodell and McGovern made thoughtful if somewhat predictable speeches. The afternoon's high point came not from reasoned advocacy but from litany. Pete Seeger, Mitch Miller, and Peter, Paul and Mary led the crowd in chanting a single refrain over and over: "All we are saying is give peace a chance...
West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt last week pledged that he would sign the nonproliferation treaty this week. West Germany will be the 92nd nation to put its signature to the treaty requiring nuclear have-not nations to refrain from developing atomic weapons. Since West Germany is the most important of the "threshold nations" that could develop nuclear weaponry, the hope was that Bonn's action would spur other nations to sign the treaty. The results were mixed. While the Japanese said they would eventually sign up, the Indians still refused on the grounds that the treaty would...