Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urge Harvard followers to refrain from these excesses, in the hope that we can establish a standard of positive support for our team and courtesy for the visitors which will be followed at every college...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students has requested that all students who signed up for Africa Fast Day two weeks ago refrain from eating their evening meal tonight. The rebate of this meal will be forwarded to a fund for the relief of West African drought victims...
...heritable, let us say, as physical height, but more heritable than any other broad human psychological trait yet measured. Without a doubt, the confusion about I.Q.'s heritability is the controversy's most regrettable distortion. Geneticists who, in the technical literature, acknowledge I.Q.'s large genetic component refrain from adding their findings or judgments to the public debate, no doubt for fear of having articles like Benda's written about them...
...Devil) had given him life for just one reason: to shout with every breath that all was a ghastly mistake. "Froth! Rotten!" were his actor father's dying lines, and the playwright son with the eyes of a fallen angel carried on the refrain. "The Great Sickness" was among O'Neill's milder epithets for human existence...
Author Sanders cuts and piles clean sentences by the cord, stacks the cords by the carload, but then, alas, cannot refrain from using them all. His excessive literary creation is nevertheless an unparalleled time passer...