Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restraining order commanded that HSWOC "desist from and refrain from (1) illegally picketing: and (2) annoying, harassing and intimidating employees or customers while on the picket line...
Gonna hit you!" Some of the catch phrases in these routines have already become part of the slang of the '70s. The best known is the refrain with which a black minister's wife explains her every goof, whether it is buying an expensive dress or ramming her car into the side of the church: "The devil made...
...great extent whatever guilt or bad feeling exists in Israel stems from the fact that they, a nation of victims and refugees, have caused suffering to another people, the Arabs, and out of their national hopes engendered hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees. In light of the familiar Nazi refrain, "We were only following orders," the Israeli public has become extremely sensitive to the preservation of individual humanity amid the exigencies of warfare: a furious controversy ensued when the Tank Corps established as its philosophy that there was to be no room for personal initiative, but rather in view...
...shortened Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. His performance was solid but unspectacular, flintily eloquent and unemotional; not once did he smile. If elected he promised "a new beginning," a phrase provided by his chief speechwriter, Robert Shrum, a former Lindsay aide. In inflection, tone, even phraseology, he evoked the refrain of John Kennedy's 1960 standard campaign speech: "We are going to have to do much better." Nine times Muskie started sentences with the words, "It is not good enough," as he recited a litany of national needs and failures. "We were promised an end to war," he said...
...Evidence. The emergency declaration stopped short of martial law, but its six points demanded that citizens refrain from "irresponsible arguments on national security matters" and warned them to be prepared "to concede some of the freedom" they now enjoy. Park also asked the National Assembly to give the government additional powers to protect military facilities, 1 milt publication of security information and commandeer private property, if necessary...