Word: refrained
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...nuclear-armed vessels. The proscription applied to all foreign shipping, but it really meant U.S. naval vessels. At first it appeared that the matter could be compromised or finessed without great difficulty. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz told Lange in Wellington last July that the U.S. would refrain from sending any naval vessels to New Zealand ports for six months or more. According to U.S. officials, the New Zealanders in turn assured the Americans that the problem could be settled to everyone's satisfaction by then...
...necessary. However, the pendulum may be swinging too far in the other direction. It would be a tragedy to deny children the warmth of a relationship with a well-meaning adult like a neighbor who touches the youngster's head or pats his back. Many people may now refrain from any contact with a child for fear of being branded an "Uncle Harry...
Despite his vanity and predilection for the bottle, Boswell above all, as Carlyle said of him, had a good heart. As long as he could refrain from showing off and writing newspaper squibs about himself, he was a first-rate journalist. Boswell scrutinized everything around him and his works, the lively tour of the Hebrides and his biography of Johnson, brought a plethora of fascinating minutiae to light. Explaining Boswell's literary brilliance, Brady notes, "like Johnson he made acute observations about others because he relentlessly observed himself." And when this man--who wanted everyone to like him, who ardently...
This idea of human savagery is further reinforced by Richard Peaslee's songs. Set to lilting tunes resembling those of Kurt Weill's, the words are as bitterly ironic as Brecht's. Throughout Marat/Sade, the singers repeat the refrain: "Marat we're poor/And the poor stay poor,/Give us a rise and we don't care how,/Give us a revolution...now!" The link between mass revolt and sexual lust is the theme of another rollicking song: "And what is the point of a revolution/But general copulation?" On the word "copulation", the singers perform a neatly-choreographed little wind...
University spokesman Steve Kezerian added yesterday that any faculty members cancelling classes might be subject to disciplinary action from the college dean and from their department chairmen. The administration has also notified chairmen that members of their departments will be expected to refrain from participating in the boycott...