Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wearing pageboys, and I had frizzy hair." She changed her name from Phoebe Laub to Phoebe Snow, a sign on boxcars near her home in Teaneck, N.J. She doted on Shirley Temple movies and Judy Garland records. Later she borrowed from early enthusiasms. "I copped that lick for my refrain in Poetry Man from The Continental in the old Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie," she admits. Her parents-her mother was a Martha Graham dancer-encouraged her to study classical piano. With Billie Holiday, Big Bill Broonzy and Bob Dylan thrown in, Snow's personal sound track was varied...
...farmers eager to make more big sales, the Soviets in effect will be rationed to a portion of their wants-how large a portion, the Ford Administration must soon make up its mind. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz last week renewed a request to all U.S. grain exporters to refrain from negotiating any more sales to Moscow until further notice. (The Administration has no statutory authority to order such a suspension, but grain-export companies obey Washington's wishes.) The notice is not likely to come until after the bulk of the U.S. harvest is reaped and counted...
...well as a professional musician since that time, I have talked to Mr. Straus, since reading his article, and he tells me that he does not feel it necessary to retract the statement that "I deeply resent Mr. Kirchner" because he has a right to his impression. I will refrain from giving my "impression" of Mr. Straus's intelligence and reparative ability on the grounds that it might be libelous...
Most leaders went to some effort to refrain from upsetting the heady atmosphere of peace and détente with their speeches. But Harold Wilson delivered a blunt address that accurately reflected the views of Britain's Western allies. "Detente means little if it is not reflected in the daily lives of our peoples," he told the delegates. "There is no reason why, in 1975, Europeans should not be allowed to marry whom they want, hear and read what they want, travel abroad when and where they want, meet when they want. To deny that proposition is a sign...
...Basic Error. As the Russians had hoped, the final form of the declaration states that "the participating states regard as inviolable all one another's frontiers ... and will refrain now and in the future from assaulting these frontiers." With characteristic ambiguity, however, it also says: "They consider that their frontiers can be changed, in accordance with international law, by peaceful means and by agreement." This latter point was the sine qua non for the West German government, since it provides, at least hypothetically, for the eventual reunification of Germany...