Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COMING WEEK at Seabrook, the sanctity of private property rights must yield to the sanctity of human life. The occupiers will be unarmed and trained in nonviolence. We hope that the police will refrain from using their water hoses and attack dogs. And we hope a successful occupation will convince America to turn to a safer, saner energy future, one free of nuclear power...
...shareholders' meeting last May, several religious and social organizations introduced a shareholders' resolution calling on the bank to refrain from making new loans and renewing old ones to the South African government and its agencies, Miriam Greene, a spokesman for Bank of America, said yesterday...
...reading, nothing about the machinations and power struggles inside the government, or even Betty's boozing, or Jack's affair with Bianca Jagger. The whole book could've been written out of the New York Times. And no real insights into Ford himself, Ford the Man, except for the refrain "I was damn mad" and stories like this...
Some of the rules on sexual behavior seemed to have been designed for a Victorian boarding school for boys. "When out on a date, be sure to head home early." "Refrain from premarital sex even when the girl is your fiancee." "If you go all the way, marry her quickly or your fever will cool down." "Keep your hands off married women or the result will be a calamity." "Beware of sweet words from bar girls and cabaret hostesses...
...MIGHT FORGIVE Hackett his misunderstanding of modern strategic thought if he had turned out a well-written, entertaining tour of the next Armageddon. His account instead reads like a repair manual for a Chieftain tank upgraded for use on all NATO forces, with a simple refrain liberally repeated throughout--"What was done in the years between 1978 and 1984" (that is, Hackett nudges us in the ribs, what we should be doing right now) "was enough to prevent Soviet victory...