Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that no one in the war has had a monopoly of anguish and that no one has a monopoly of insight." It is a recognition of the fact that in the future the U.S. will have to adopt a more modest posture before the complex processes of history, to refrain from trying to remake the world in its own image, to learn to live with evils that cannot be removed...
...preamble to the Washington-Hanoi draft agreement of last October, in which the U.S. reportedly acknowledged the "unity" of Viet Nam while extracting from the North the concession that the country was temporarily not unified. The U.S. is not likely to win a guarantee that Hanoi will refrain from using violence to impose its system on the South. But Washington seeks, at the least, an assurance that Hanoi will respect the DMZ as a temporary border between two sovereign halves of a divided country...
...Department promised to refrain from filling the post until the end of Nixon's first term. James Q. Wilson chairman of the Department, met last week with Kissinger in what he described as an attempt to ascertain the national security adviser's future plans...
...increased technological, economic and cultural cooperation between East and West; and 3) establishment of a permanent organization to deal with European security problems. The NATO powers will accept this framework, but are determined to concentrate on specific details that will have practical effects, such as an agreement to refrain from sudden troop movements or unannounced military maneuvers near borders, and the possibility of allowing each bloc to station observers in the countries of the other...
...agreements on Indochina and the 1962 Geneva agreements on Laos"?that is, their independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity. They will also respect the neutrality of Cambodia and Laos. Foreign countries will put an end to all military activities in Cambodia and Laos, and will "totally withdraw" and refrain from reintroducing arms...