Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oakland Coliseum last Thursday night can serve as a parable. A balmy summer night, small children with oversize mitts dreaming of foul balls, peanuts, Cracker Jack and the familiar Take Me Out to the Ball Game played during the seventh-inning stretch. But then it came time for the refrain "It's one! two! three strikes, you're out!" A chorus of boos rose from the stands...
Despite a recent storm of criticism, a post-doctoral students and a Harvard professor did not refrain from attacking the desegregation policies of a Maryland school district in the final copy of a study released yesterday...
...Israel have studied 36 male Israeli football players and have established the optimum period of sexual abstinence for peak athletic performance. Complicating life for coaches, athletes and their partners, the interlude varies with a player's position on the field. Forwards, who expend extra energy and aggression, should refrain from sexual activity for six to eight days before a game. Defenders and goalies, who require less physical energy on the playing field, need only curtail bedroom sports three to five days before the kickoff. Alexander Olshanyetsky and Mordechai Halperin of the Jerusalem Center for Impotence and Infertility plan to expand...
Briskin, who is Jewish says the Harvardcommunity is accepting of inter-faith romance, butthat parents can pressure children to refrain fromdating outside their religion...
With great fanfare, Russian President Boris Yeltsin completed a peace agreement signed by leaders of the main parliamentary factions, trade unions and religious groups. The accord, which pledges that all sides will refrain from violence, is intended to last two years -- giving the government time to act on economic reforms...