Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison on time" is the latest refrain in California's twelve penal institutions. Since last October, when the California state legislature passed a statute restoring numerous civil rights to felons, including the right to marry, the wedding bells have been ringing loudly. In the last quarter of 1975, some 177 prisoners, or about 1% of state inmates, tied the knot. Slammer marriage ceremonies, usually per formed by prison chaplains or county officials, are maintaining roughly this same pace in the early months of 1976. Weddings are open to all prisoners, even the "lifers...
...black braids which "flew out like whips." Yet they are frightened of their own desires, and tend to suppress them. As a result, they remain unfulfilled or their bodies are reshaped by their lovers' ravishment, while "the soul splits apart, and tastes like salt." The women of her verse refrain from jeopardizing others only to be, Sagan hints, themselves destroyed...
...mourn his passing we recall a refrain from "Freiheit", the Spanish Civil War song he immortalized...
...Most notably, Moynihan reported that Somalia's Abdulrahim Farah, an Assistant Secretary General of the U.N., had agreed that U.S. threats of reduced foreign aid were an effective means of influencing African nations to refrain from endorsing the Soviet-backed faction in Angola...
...Forman refrain from physical ministrations, medical and otherwise. He invented a code word -halek-to record sexual relations with female patients. The word pops up with awesome regularity throughout the good doctor's case notes. The Dark Lady herself received his attentions. In his mid-50s, he was still haleking as often as three times a day, and the hundreds of casual adulteries confessed to by his clients suggest that Forman was not unusually randy. Rowse's exclamation, "What a free-for-all Elizabethan sex-life was!" is amply documented...