Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ladies, Dartboard urges you to refrain from waiting on final club doorsteps in little black dresses from now on. Lord Final Club has reached beyond his hive and invaded your sleep, your dreams and your nighttime solace...
...rock group Blue Oyster Cult admonishes listeners: "don't fear the reaper." It's a pretty refrain but certainly easier said than done. This comes from someone who recently rehearsed her own funeral...
Many object to the giving of money for philosophical or political reasons, and others refrain from volunteering due to their lack of free time. But no matter what your politics, and no matter what your schedule, smiling and speaking are simple, necessary acts of human decency...
...Joanis breaks into the second verse of BenE. King's "Stand By Me," a cluster of middleschool girls stroll by. Suddenly, as if they'veheard their anthem, the girls let out a collectiveshriek, gathering around the singer and joininghim in the final refrain. As he strums the lastchord, the girls thank him profusely. Joanis smilewidens and he launches into his next song...
...struggled with the drinking question for a long while. On the one hand, I felt compelled by my respect for the law and a sizable degree of prudishness to refrain. I was proud to refuse to give in to what everyone else was doing, to what I considered wrong or at least unhealthy. Yet at the same time, my abstention was isolating, especially as I began putting myself in situations in which alcohol was readily available. This year I finally gave in. I stopped castigating others for having fake IDs, though I never did come close to getting...