Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ducks, it is also true, has done an admirable job in making sure his increased security efforts in areas frequented by students will not be interpreted negatively on campuses. He himself made numerous visits to high schools and colleges during prom and graduation time last spring urging students to refrain from drinking and driving. Last week, he summoned student leaders and media from campuses across the state to explain how and why drunk driving roadblocks and police patrols would be increased around college campuses...
...Kevin White had run again, unsavory reputation and all, corruption might have been the loudest campaign refrain. But White stepped down, and the other primary candidates, anxious not to alienate his supporters, rarely mentioned this central flaw of city government. The patronage machinery may be one of the biggest prizes of the contest. But the press follows along. No one asks what is future of machine politics--and why so few of the candidates feel the need to run against it. Boston is losing the chance to know itself...
Your statement that the destruction of my wrecked "web" brought down several Boston trust companies is perfidious. Under any other form of government, it would call for a challenge to a duel. For this time, I shall refrain from perforating your hide on condition that you make public amend by printing this letter verbatim...
...generations off against each other, it sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga. A Day in the Life is by all odds the most disturbingly beautiful song the group has ever produced. At the end, the refrain, "I'd love to turn you on," leads to a hair-raising chromatic crescendo by a full orchestra and a final blurred chord that is sustained for 40 seconds, like a trance of escape, or perhaps resignation...
...called pacification law was the third attempt by the military to impose national amnesia. Last November it disingenuously urged Argentines to show "greatness of spirit" so as to "attain national unity." Translation: the next civilian government should refrain from investigating military crimes. That clumsy ploy was ridiculed into oblivion. Last April the junta tried again, publishing a "final document" in which it simply declared that those who disappeared were legally and administratively dead. Explaining that any "excesses" committed by the government were purely in the line of duty, the government did not bother even to account for individual cases. Again...