Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against Arab terrorists. But after a bloody raid inside neighboring Lebanon - in which some 200 Arabs were killed - the Israelis have been unusually restrained. The reason, according to some well-placed Israelis: two weeks ago a White House aide - in a direct call to Mrs. Meir - asked Jerusalem to refrain from disturbing the peace for the immediate future. The same message was passed to Israel's Washington embassy, which was told that Lebanon needed at least a month or so to contain the fedayeen. That could have the effect of restraining Israel until after the presidential elections...
...from the Vatican's official church calendar in 1969, along with St. Christopher and some other saints whose existence was in doubt. Since then Cardinal Ursi, who is Archbishop of Naples, has been trying to down-play the celebration. Among other things, he has persuaded the congregation to refrain from roaring its approval when the liquid bubbles. But recently, a new encyclopedia labeled the San Gennaro spectacle a "residue of paganized Christianity which the church has not managed to remove from Neapolitan usage...
...worked the Republican refrain of "four more years" by listing Americans and Asians dying in Viet Nam, G.I.s hooked on heroin, hungry children at home and young mothers unable to pay their grocery bills, wiretappers, "warmongers" and purveyors of racial fears, and ended: "Can we afford four more years of that...
Only two days after the sale of The Phoenix to BAD, the displaced staff met in the hellway outside its locked Cambridge offices and decided to publish their paper as usual the following Monday, and voted to refrain from accepting job offers for at least two weeks. That policy has continued. Rotner said, and "a lot of people have turned down some incredible offers from Mindich...
...should be added that Thomas's reaction to Ryan is atypical. Most division managers respect Ryan's capabilities and some of them even honored his request to refrain from saying anything substantial to The Crimson. Ryan started as a bartender his freshman year, and worked his way up the HSA ladder. He became the manager of the catering division, one of the agency's most profitable enterprises...