Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiations as a way of inducing the West Europeans to postpone acceptance of the new missiles, thus missing the deadline that NATO had set for itself. "Both sides," Brezhnev declared during a visit to Bonn in November 1981, "should, for as long as the negotiations last, refrain from stationing new medium-range systems in Europe and from modernizing already existing ones...
...sole good athlete on a last-place team, had been allowed an astonishing amount of latitude over the years. At a time when a Memphis radio station was infuriating a bloated local boy, Elvis Presley, with a weight-mocking song called Just One More Jelly Doughnut, whose background refrain went, "He's gonna pop!" a Press-Scimitar columnist was actually begging in the paper for Elvis to give him a Cadillac. The singer was not moved...
...endlessly pursued by [her] parents' weeping"; for Marianne has left her comfortable home in England to come on a hopeless search and then long vigil for Willie. And she proceeds wanted, like Hardy's Tess, from one to the other of Willie Quinton's old acquaintances, repeating the refrain "I am going to have Willie's baby," which resounds like a death knell across rural Ireland...
...attempt to retain the original flavor but appeal to a 1983 audience who might not have been around in 1964. Lehrer has changed a few of the more duted lyrics, but purists won't appreciate the minor improvement. One noted exception lies in the "National Brotherhood Week" refrain: Instead of having "Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark of Selma, Alabama, dancing cheek to cheek," he has the equally improbable duo of Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass) and Jerry Falwell taking up the pose...
...Twentieth Anniversary report reveals the respected careers since followed by the principal perpetrators of our class: a brilliant medical researcher, not surprisingly several professors of English--and as for the most creative and irreverent participant, he has served with great distinction on the Harvard faculty. I shall refrain from according this college roommate direct and deserving recognition, lest his tenure be in jeopardy by Cromwellian forces in University...