Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate, by a vote of 90 to 5, passed a nonbinding resolution calling on Reagan to "continue to refrain from undercutting" SALT II's provisions. Anticipating his decision, however, the Senate allowed for "proportionate responses" to any Soviet violations. Washington's NATO allies, meanwhile, urged the U.S. not to tamper with SALT II for fear of upsetting the nuclear status quo and undermining current U.S.-Soviet arms-reduction talks in Geneva...
Dylan has had a lot of practice at such radical departures. He not only shaped current American popular music, he changed it irrevocably. Baffled editorial writers and swamped reporters, trying to sort sense from the maelstrom of the late '60s and early '70s, would fall back on a famous refrain from Dylan's Ballad of a Thin Man. Now don't all sing at once: "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones...
...pacing has never been more engagingly on display. Yet the restrictions imposed by these skills are also evident. In the world according to Irving, characters are the passive victims of life. They are either children or childlike, dependent on forces beyond their control. They "wait and see" (an ongoing refrain in this novel), wondering, like Homer and Dr. Larch, "What is going to happen to me?" What literally happens to them, of course, is the tricks, sometimes macabre, visited upon them by their creator...
...once you complete your spring exams, your fancy might turn to a friendly game of frisbee in the yard. But after a few minutes, a College official will direct you to take you game over to Tercentenary Theater. Does Harvard, as the Handbook says, want you to refrain from playing, "boisterous games in the yard," or does the University prefer that you trample on the grass in the area where Commencement will be held...
...start of the meeting, Gorbachev spoke, with only minor interruptions, for 1 hr. 45 min. "Maybe I'm taking too long," he said, "but maybe it's worth it for the world that we spend three or four hours together." He said he hoped that Congress would refrain from applying embargoes against East-bloc nations. He gave no ground on the shooting of the U.S. officer in East Germany and was noncommittal about the possibility of increasing Jewish emigration. He sarcastically lamented that the American press depicts Soviet citizens as "living in caves"--to which Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte responded...