Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening is an amiable mixture of songs, dances and wisecracks seasoned with the rueful wisdom of age. Maxine Sullivan, whom one must not refrain from calling ageless, stops the clock and the show with a briskly resilient number called A Little Starch Left. An October-October romance between a carpenter (Peter Walker) and a woman (Sylvia Davis) whose husband is hospitalized and dying supplies the musical's bittersweet plot line. At show's end the pair sashay out of the Golden Days to share their sunset years, and on leaving the theater you may find your own step...
...report submitted to the Harvard Corporation yesterday, the Advisory committee on shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) said the University should refrain from introducing shareholder resolutions in companies operating in South Africa, except as "a last resort...
...nasty White House speechwriter who coined "nattering nabobs of negativism" for Spiro Agnew's attack on the press? His first columns insisted endlessly that Democrats were just as venal and hypocritical as his crowd. Remember his Nixonian attack in doggerel on John Dean, with the refrain, "He's a better man than you are, Gunga Dean"? His pieces were lively, if spiteful. They were sometimes relieved by his love of puns, which he has since learned to check. He continues with zest and doggedness but not always with fairness or pinpoint accuracy to go after Democratic wrongdoing. Bert...
...York, Kurt Waldheim, secretary-general of the United Nations. yesterday called on "all concerned to exercise restraint and to refrain from moves that may further escalate the fighting...
...status of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories was "a matter for discussion in negotiations on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza." Hussein was also informed that "it is the position of the U.S. that Israel should refrain from creating new settlements on the West Bank while negotiations are under way on establishing the self-governing authority." The U.S. position is based on the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which forbids the establishment of civilian communities in territory that is militarily occupied. Washington and Jerusalem have hotly argued the interpretation of the convention in the past...