Word: refraining
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Respect for the free exchange of ideas--if not the simple courtesy of letting students use a convenient facility--should be enough to dissuade the School Committee from barring a particular speaker whenever it feels the urge. The Committee should reverse the decision on Carmichael, and refrain in the future from making another like...
...Sulzberger, disguised as a distinguished journalist, tries to conceal his identity as an international provocateur." And even the conservative daily Kathimerini suggested that the King should refrain from talking to" foreign journalists. Sulzberger, however, was not fazed: "I'm never really too surprised at anything that happens in Greece," he said. "They are an imaginative people and take their politics seriously...
...Administrative Board requires the student to leave Cambridge and sever connections with the Harvard community for at least two terms. During that time, he must hold a responsible job for a minimum of six months, and refrain from regular daytime attendance at another college. After the specified two terms have elapsed and the student presents the Board with his job record and a letter from his employer, his readmission to Harvard is virtually assured...
...least a few relatively well-heeled customers will have nothing to do with untaxed liquor: the amount of cash involved is far too little and there is too much uncertainty. The police, for whom it is the simplest of errands to run someone in for possession of untaxed liquor, refrain on payment of a staggering $8 per week for each patrolman...
...version has it that Mao during his recent six-month absence from public view was being urged by President Lui Shao-chi to refrain from an other Leap Forward. Mao, so the story goes, enlisted his own wife to whip up support for him. She, in turn, recruited Lin Piao to Mao's cause...