Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...priest to be shot down in Spain than to see his faith being dragged into the dirt in Germany." The Gestapo promptly arrested him. He was given a suspended sentence by the court, rearrested by the Gestapo. Like Niemoller he has refused release offered him on condition that he refrain from preaching...
...spontaneous. U. S. Intelligencers on the spot positively identified three of the leading Mexico City German agents circulating in the crowd. Almazán himself, who had just flown to Mexico City and renounced his claims to the Presidency, said later: "I have recommended to my friends that they refrain from acts of violence. My sincere friends have adhered to this recommendation...
...first lecture here, the students acknowledged the masterpiece by applauding. At the beginning of the next class, however, the noted teacher and scholar openly thanked them for the applause but requested that they refrain from such actions in the future...
Britain, said the Führer, taking up his old refrain, had refused to make peace with him. "I wanted the closest friendship with England. I thought the Germanic races should go together. If England had agreed, good. They did not agree. Also good. If England says that the war will continue, that is all the same to me. But it will end with our victory. You may believe me in that...
...twelve deafening minutes he stood on a table before the roaring crowd. When they finally let him speak, his voice, with the flat, deep quality of a bass horn, touched off one outburst after another. Item by item he pilloried the acts of the Roosevelt Administration, interjecting a thunderous refrain: "That is the record of the New Deal. It is not the method of Democracy. I want to unite all people in America. I have no prejudice against any. I want to unite labor, industry and agriculture. I want to unite Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile." The crowd, waving...