Word: refraining
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...flasks should return to vogue at the game Saturday, as a result of a notice in many student ticket envelopes requesting spectators to refrain from bringing alcoholic beverages to the game...
...women; in a few the witch doctor has a monopoly of the business, but usually all the wise old men get together to brew a batch. A widespread restriction is that the curare-makers shall operate in an isolated part of the forest; often they are required to refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse to put new curare into old bottles, insist on new containers (gourds, bamboo sections...
...said killed Pilot Murphy. The sudden switch appeared to be a belated attempt to end a storm of bad publicity. But, even in the agreement with Ernst & Co., there is an escape clause. If the attorneys break the contract "for failure of cooperation," they will "preserve professional confidence and refrain from issuing any report...
...president of the Tuskegee Civic Association, lay out a strategy for fighting back without violence. "We will buy goods and services only from those who will recognize us as first-class citizens." Then, sounding a note reminiscent of Montgomery's Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Gomillion cautioned: "Please refrain from boasting, betting or accepting bribes. Soon the time will come when they [the whites] will have to respect us. They may hate our guts, but they will respect us. We can hold out longer than they. We can form our own businesses if necessary. We will continue as long...
...thunder rolled in the distance as Harold Macmillan, pale and humorless, rose in the House of Commons last week to put an 'official stamp on the greatest British diplomatic reverse since Munich. "Her Majesty's Government," announced the Prime Minister, "can no longer advise British shipowners to refrain from using the Suez Canal." Payment of canal dues, he went on, would be made in sterling-though Egypt's pre-Suez balance of $300 million, which was blocked by the Eden government, would remain frozen. Curtly, Macmillan said: "A much longer view will decide the rights and wrongs...