Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, the man Franco had hand-picked as his successor. In 1973 Carrero Blanco and his automobile were blown four stories high in Madrid by an exploding land mine, a spectacular event that led to a popular folk song in Basque country with a refrain that begins, "Whoops, he goes...
...little toleration for infighting, clearly hopes that the feuding will end. He also may finally be ready to do something about the Hatfields and McCoys of his Administration. At a recent meeting of the National Security Council, he sternly admonished all present, including the top White House staff, to refrain from leaking criticism of other members of the Administration-at the risk of getting fired...
...above this year's norm is likely to be below the norm of, say, 15 years ago. Skeptics also complain that teachers are drilling students on test skills instead of real reading and writing. Disgusted by the cramming mania, one Missouri superintendent recommended that schools in his district refrain from "preparing for the Super Bowl...
...with dramatic texts--or, as senior actor Jeremy Geidt put it when the company was still moving in, "We don't set Hamlet in Upper Silesia just because Upper Silesia happens to be fashionable. Yet the cry of academic theatergoers, at Harvard or anywhere else, resounds with the same refrain: stick to the text. And herein lies the root trouble with Brustein's vision of harmony between university and theater...
University officials then decided to follow-up on the possibility of Reagan coming to speak, and issued a formal invitation for the University Commencement. At that point, the K-School decided to refrain from inviting anyone, because Bok indicated that if Reagan came to speak at the Yard, the K-School might have been granted "special privileges," Forman said...