Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during pregnancy has long been one of medicine's gray areas. Obstetricians, with little and conflicting evidence to go on, variously advise couples concerned about harming the baby to abstain totally during pregnancy, to do whatever they want in any month, or to forgo orgasm in later months because it causes uterine contractions and might induce premature labor. Most often, they recommend avoiding intercourse during the last four to six weeks of pregnancy. Now comes a report that is bound to disturb expecting couples-perhaps unnecessarily...
Contrary to what Mr. Leo implies, not all vegetarians are young people following a fad. There are millions of vegetarians in this country, people of all ages and walks of life who have decided to abstain from meat for health, ecological and/or ethical reasons...
...Laingen last July, also discussed "the Shah's desire to reside in the U.S." It asked Laingen what effect this might have on the safety of Americans in Iran and on U.S. relations with the Iranian government, particularly if the Shah were to renounce the throne and agree to abstain from all political activity while living in the U.S. Vance added: "We understand the key to minimizing the impact of the Shah's mission would be in Bazargan and the [Iranian] government's willingness and ability in such a situation to control and command the security forces guarding our people...
...requested motorists to drive no faster than 50 m.p.h. New York Governor Hugh Carey asked motorists to cut their driving this month by 100 miles, which would enable them to save seven gallons of gasoline each. The New England Council, a Boston-based booster group, has proposed that everyone abstain from driving one day a week. To those who took the pledge, the council offered bumper stickers that read: SAY NO TO OPEC...
...itinerant parfaits preached stirring sermons (there was hardly a book in town, and only four of its more than 200 people could read). Conversions came quickly. Unlike the parfaits, ordinary believers did not need to abstain from mutton and love; they had only to receive a deathbed absolution. At that point, they were expected to embark on the endura, a suicidal fast that sped them to heaven. A fellow traveler like Parish Priest Pierre Clergue could turn the Cathar teachings upside down: "Since everything is forbidden, everything is allowed." Clergue was rare in his rapacity, but not in taking concubines...