Word: refraining
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...which normally reliable applause lines fell flat. "Tough crowd," winced Nelson Warfield, Dole's campaign press secretary. There were Rotary Club breakfasts in Manchester, New Hampshire, after the first big Republican debate, where an informal vote yielded a landslide: for Undecided. Everywhere they go, Dole's minions hear a refrain that has little to do with the spectral presence of Colin Powell. "I can get Bob Dole to call you personally," an eager Dole staffer told Richard Albertson, an undecided delegate to next week's perversely important straw poll in Florida, which Dole himself has called "the big political event...
...refrain has become familiar. Week after week, gut-wrenching loss after gut-wrenching loss, Harvard football coach Tim Murphy blames the twin scapegoats of Youth and Inexperience for his program's lack of success this season...
...black people wish to end it, but black people, seeing that racism can translate into oppression, think they must fight fire with fire. As Cornel West says, it is natural for a black person to counter racism with racism. And white people, seeing that black people are also racist, refrain from purging their own attitudes of racist thoughts. Thus neither side of the color line benefits and both sides end up separating form each other...
That Farrakhan's power is well-established within his community we should not doubt. But should we refrain from worrying about this concentration of authority in so evil an organization as the Nation of Islam...
...interrupting herself, taking notes, or telling witty anecdotes, Smith's stream-of-consciouness style was thoroughly enjoyable. After she elaborately introduced one work, just as she was about to begin, her mood changed and she read a more mischievous one, "Cowboy Truths." While reading it, she also sang the refrain, exemplifying just how easily her lyrics translate into music...