Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, now that he'll be coaching in the pros, Satch will have to refrain from those heated tirades he used to fire off at poor Ivy League officials. Once, after a particularly vehement display of anger, Sanders had to be reprimanded in front of a packed IAB crowd of 23 (parents and girlfriends and players excluded...
With this dress the pilgrim enters the state of 'ihram' consecration. He must abstain from all modes of gratification of personal vanity, beautification of the body, and indulgence of its desires. More emphatically the pilgrim should refrain from hurting or destroying anything that is alive; peace must reign, especially then...
...order to gain tax-exempt status PUMA as an organization must refrain from any formal political lobbying efforts. Nevertheless, PUMA members have been involved in lobbying at the State House to decriminalize prostitution, often working through Prostitutes for Legislative Reform. Lewis and Weeks praise some legislators--State Reps. Barney Frank '61, Mel King and Elaine Noble--for being supportive. But their meetings with some other politicians have been frustrating. In one meeting at the State House, the legislature's leading anti-abortion crusader started spouting Biblical injunctions as soon as Lewis explained his purpose. Lewis hates that at least...
...plays by his own rules, however, often holding out his vote until the final moment for the sake of political and dramatic effect. School Committeeman Glenn S. Koocher '71 says Vellucci waited six months before agreeing to extend the superintendent's contract, and thus forced three committee liberals to refrain from publicly criticizing...
That is the litany--heard wherever we went...joined by countless and faceless voices, heard by us and by others, and always the refrain is the same...