Word: refraining
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...faced a revolt against his one-man campaign against sex in marriage. One follower, puzzled by Gandhi's exhortations to newlywed disciples to vow "self-restraint until Swaraj [Indian self-rule]," called for an explanation. "To marry thus," he wrote, "is surely an inconsistency. He who wants to refrain has no need to marry. ... To me the vow appears ridiculous...
Most of the Association directors agreed that it was worth everyone's effort to keep all costs down and that they would urge all of their members to refrain from profiteering. Even though they could not speak for non-member merchants in the Square, they felt that the use of the word "price-gougers" in Friday's paper carried unjustified implications...
...Nesbitt has proved that Protestant schisms are no insuperable barrier to united Protestant action. He has pushed St. George's original 500 police membership to more than 3,000. Like their Holy Name colleagues, St. George members are required to attend church each Sunday, receive Holy Communion regularly, refrain from swearing and indecent language, be "polite, courteous and gentlemanly" at all times...
...King was going-to England, and later to Paris, for about two months. Gravely, he promised the Commons to "refrain from committing [Canada] in a manner that is likely to occasion embarrassment. ... I am not one of those who pretends to speak for the entire Cabinet without . . . conferring with them...
...strident trumpet took up the what's-wrong-with-our-colleges refrain. New York University's Professor of Philosophy Sidney Hook, in a new book (Education for Modern Man, Dial; $2.75), blew a sweet note for John Dewey and experimental education, a sour blast for Chicago's Robert Hutchins and the classic tradition...