Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington was guilty of an unfortunate naivete by believing that a political solution was possible after the passions of the Indians and Pakistanis had become so aroused. Given the continued existence of a power vacuum in East Bengal, it may have been as unrealistic to expect the Indians to refrain indefinitely from dealing their archenemy a crippling and permanent blow as to have expected the Israelis to halt their 1967 advance in the middle of the Sinai...
Because Sunday Bloody Sunday operates in a specific economic context (a newscast of a prevailing monetary crisis serves as the film's refrain). Gilliat feels her movie is "peculiarly political." The political import reads like an open letter to the English, who are familiar with its suggested terms, while an American needs to be told that the Jarrow hunger marches in 1906 are built deep into the nation's memory, and into the background of her characters. Class differentiation in the film as seen, to be gradually disintegrating. Bob represents a classless agent, although his implicit working-class origin...
...Afterward Mrs. Meir told newsmen: "I went away with the feeling that there is definitely better understanding of the Israeli way of looking at it. I guess that's the most one can ask of a friend." She still wanted Phantoms. "Our neighbors are much more apt to refrain from war and more inclined toward negotiations when Israel is a strong Israel...
Finally, a word about my "obedience", whatever that means. Father Collins never once told or asked me to refrain from undertaking any part of my ministry. Whenever he offered critical advice to me in my work I believe he did so as a friend, without ever limiting my freedom to do what I thought best. (Rev.) Richard J. Shmaruk...
...Long Bar of Meikle's Hotel in Salisbury, white Rhodesians were clinking bottles and roaring the merry refrain of Land of Hope and Glory. From the African bar at the other corner of the building came a throaty Nkosi Si-kelele Afrika (God Bless Africa). "There you have it," said a Rhodesian businessman as he listened to both. "Take a man from one of those bars, push him into the other, and it would be like throwing in a hand grenade. Britain and the rest of the world can do what they like, but this is what Rhodesia...