Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic role of government should be to refrain from interference with individuals, except to protect them from force and fraud." Shipman told the nine students who gathered at Burr Hall...
...streets again in the wake of the Aug. 31 riots, when five died in bitter clashes with security forces. Taking no chances, the government had already bivouacked hundreds of extra riot police in downtown Warsaw hotels, but most citizens heeded the advice of Solidarity's underground leaders to refrain from violence...
...issues. Apparently seeing the potential listening public among the growing ranks of the unemployed. Joel begins The Nylon Curtain with "Allentown," an upbeat ode to those who are out of work in the Pennsylvanian factory town. Joel sprinkles insincere comments about broken American promises in between the vacuous refrain "And we're living here in Allentown." "Iron and coke and chromium steel," Joel chirps cheerily...
...Israel as a propaganda ploy, and explicitly disavowed as a recognition of Israel by official P.L.O. spokesmen in Beirut, New York and Paris. That blow came after a stinging cable from House Speaker Tip O'Neill instructing the congressional delegation, whose trip he had routinely authorized, to refrain from making statements in his name. It was only the beginning of the Americans' troubles. Representatives Nick Rahall of West Virginia and Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio, both of Lebanese descent and both persistent critics of Israel, told the press that the damage they had seen in Tyre and Sidon...
...palace intruder gives new urgency to an old refrain...