Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for the Camp David meetings was President Carter's hope of liberating the participants from the constraints of their own past rhetoric. That meant keeping them away from the press too. To prevent either side from stealing the show, top aides accompanying Sadat and-Begin agreed to refrain from leaking to the press until the talks ended...
...controversy had been set off by disclosures in the local press that the Israeli government was planning to establish five new settlements on the West Bank. This was in contradiction to Begin's promise to Cyrus Vance a week earlier: that Israel would refrain from starting any more such settlements until after the September summit...
...years ago in Kensett, Ark., happens to be the mother of another warbler: Cher. When Mom took the mike at a West Hollywood nightspot, Studio One, last week, Cher and her sister, Actress Georganne LaPiere, were in the audience cheering wildly. For Holt, the stint was actually a refrain. As a youngster, she used to hit the notes on the radio and in saloons across the West. This time around, Holt has hopes of cutting an album and making it big. Says she: "I sound better on tape than in person...
...probably won't be the last. As Dizzy Gillespie and his host hammed it up last week, Herbie Hancock, Eubie Blake, Ornette Coleman and 35 or so other jazz stars played for a throng of guests on the White House lawn. Later, Carter warbled Gillespie's famous refrain: "Salt peanuts, salt peanuts." Asked Gillespie: "Would you like to go on the road with us?" Joked Carter: "After tonight, I may have...
...Capitol Hill, Carter's congressional allies were sounding a different refrain. The chilling-over of Moscow-Washington relations in recent weeks, they said, would make it very hard for the Administration to command the two-thirds Senate vote needed for ratification of a SALT II agreement. The danger was a real one. Observers in Washington noted with concern that further deferrals of a SALT agreement would unleash an uncontrollable new round of arms programs...