Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach Hunt couldn't refrain from gloating. "We met the cream and we weren't intimidated. I'm just so pleased...
...treated in solemn detail. On the Beatles: "Early style is typified by She Loves You (1963), with its duple metre, almost hypnotic beat, pentatonic melody, 32-bar song form and tonic-mediant tonal relationship; its text concerns adolescent love, and has a quasi ritualistic 'yeah, yeah, yeah' refrain...
UNTIL THE CORE is fully implemented, it may prove prudent for the subcommittees to refrain from imposing themselves on professors teaching Core courses. But what's politic is not always what's right. The people working on the Core have an obligation to create a standardized method for regularly reviewing offerings in the program. Establishing student-Faculty committees to evaluate courses in each of the five Core areas and then report their findings would prove workable and beneficial. But no system will work without the cooperation of professors teaching in the Core. For the sake of the program and students...
...whining refrain, "Where have all the liberals gone," is baloney. They have gone to the White House, to the Khyber Pass, to vote against school integration in Congress, to the Pentagon. It was Carter's bellicose administration that paved the way for Reagan. Under Carter's aphorism of privilege "life is unfair," working people, Blacks and the poor faced grinding inflation and unemployment while the government pushed for war with the Soviet Union, making the U.S. political climate "safe," indeed welcome for Ronald Reagan...
...this DNA work is for the money now," Vellucci said, adding "now, do we know that they'll really refrain from...