Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Radcliffe administrative policy to refrain from public comment on its own disciplinary actions. Student Government President Elizabeth K. Heaton '51 and Radcliffe News Editor Ann Roberts '51 cooperated with the CRIMSON in checking over the facts in which Student Government was concerned...
Deal. In Seattle, Mrs. Dorothy C. Horowitz used for evidence in her divorce suit a written pledge her husband had asked her to sign: "I promise never to embarrass you; to pay attention to you when you speak to me; never to smoke; to refrain from playing the radio too loudly; to keep my telephone conversations under five minutes; ... to cook three meals a day when requested and at the hours specified; . . . never to keep you waiting...
...McPartland Bix Beiderbecke once said, "He's the greatest white trumpet man in the world." Most of the Bixian refrain has gone from McPartland's horn now, and he has become more of a New York-dixicland musician. But, like Bix and unlike almost all others, he doesn't startle you with his music; he just plays it "awfully pretty" in a quiet...
Thus, in 1915, Tin Pan Alley put to banal words & music the peacetime U.S. revulsion against soldiering. The words, if not the tune, still rattled around in the heads of U.S. military leaders. They wondered how soon after the Korean job was finished they would begin to hear the refrain again. For that reason, and because it was unwise to unfold all the facts of an unpleasant situation just before an election-and because no one had any clear-cut plan anyhow-the Administration talked all around the problem last week but never got to the truth. The truth...
...Calling on all nations to refrain from action which might widen the Korean conflict...