Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jawaharlal Nehru, 56, Gandhi teammate in the fight for independence, drew a formal rebuke from some followers for contributing to a blood bank. His health, they protested, is "national wealth which should be preserved." He should really "abstain from such destructive sacrifices...
...delegation, which abstained from voting (but not from lobbying and talking) on the issue, promised to abstain in a realer sense when the commission decides between U.S. sites. The British want Boston (Irish population 40%), which gives it a lead over Philadelphia, Flushing Meadows, Newport, St. Louis and San Francisco. The UNO will insist that it be given an enclave for the site; this would mean that part of the selected city would no longer be part...
Tory Leader Winston Churchill asked his followers to abstain from voting, but 71 Conservatives insisted on voting against the bill. They were joined by a number of Laborites, including vitriolic Jennie Lee, wife of Housing Minister Aneurin Bevan, and redheaded Barbara Castle, parliamentary secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps...
...Russia (1933), the Russian Synod demanded a pledge of loyalty to the Soviets, promptly suspended the North American church when it was refused. Recently Russia's new primate, Patriarch Alexei, had a new try. But in his ukase was a familiar clause: the North American church must abstain "from political activities directed against the U.S.S.R...
...Church will respect the autonomy of the State in the exercise of its functions and will abstain from intervention in the political field. But the State must avoid all forces, visible or occult, seeking to serve coalitions of individual interests...