Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gotten away with it? Mendes recited the new guarantees he had extracted from the U.S. and Britain, and their guarantee of the Saar deal. He pleaded against abstention-though he himself had abstained from voting on NATO and EDC. "It would be better to say no than to refrain from voting," he pleaded. "If your vote can be interpreted as a sign of weakness or hesitation . . . I say to you, with deep emotion, that the government will not have enough power to make its views respected." Concluding, Mendes bid for the votes of those who might be inclined to vote...
...shift key). His bruised outpourings are mostly about mehitabel, the life-battered but life-loving cat ("toujours gai, toujours gai") who is pretty sure she is a reincarnation of Cleopatra, the hottest cat on the Nile. The libretto is somewhat bowdlerized (gone is mehitabel's running refrain of "wottheheli wotthehell"), but the original's splendid gutter lyricism is still there: wind come out of the north and pierce to the guts within but some day mehitabel s guts will string a violin
...colds and other upper respiratory infections brought Dr. Lawson to his final blast against the overuse of antibiotics. More than 90% of children's fevers and respiratory and gastrointestinal infections are caused by viruses, he declared, and antibiotics are of no use against viruses. "Yet many physicians cannot refrain from scattering antibiotics far and wide because 1) the family expects it, 2) it won't do any harm. 3) it might do some good, or 4) you can't tell which infection is viral and which bacterial . . . The pressure to 'do something is always there...
...already turned against Vargas, became his roughest congressional critic. When Vargas set up an outright dictatorship in 1937, Café Filho fled to Argentina. As the price of a promise that he would not be molested if he returned to Brazil, Café Filho had to agree to refrain from all political activities. He got a job with a bus company, and spent the following seven years as a white-collar worker...
...nation's top economists: urbane Eugenio Gudin, 68, professor at the University of Brazil. To Gudin's way of thinking, nationalism ranks with inflation as an obstacle to Brazil's healthy economic growth. But for the time being, the administration can do little about nationalism except refrain from encouraging it. The administration's common-sense policy on the Petrobras oil law is to let it stand until nationalistic sentiment subsides, and get as much foreign participation in oil development as the law's loopholes permit. Explains Cafe Filho laconically: "The problem...