Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Piercing Whistle. The rain-drenched crowd chanted a rhythmic "Algerie Franqaise" and accompanied the refrain with piercing three-short and two-long whistles. Ignoring the clamor, De Gaulle climbed from his car, waved cordially, and entered the town hall to address local dignitaries. When he emerged, the square reverberated with caterwauling shouts and whistles. De Gaulle ambled in his camel gait straight into the crowd at the point where the shouting was loudest. Startled Europeans fell back. Some were so nonplused that they paused in mid-scream to shake his hand...
...Cambridge publications. It would be folly to attempt to describe the delicacies of Mr. Johnston's style, his skill in blank verse, his felicity of rhyme; I must pretermit all this, even decline to mention the phrasing of his narrative, the ingenuity of his conceit. I cannot, however, refrain from remarking with highest approbation--upon his obvious familiarity with the Lesser Celandine, a flower whose possibilities have never been adequately explored; and his accurate and steadfast belief in Nymphs and Satyrs, the old and true deities, whose existence has in no way been refuted by the cults of various recent...
...turned to Mobutu, whose highest rank under Belgian rule was sergeant, and announced with a smart salute: "All is ready, mon colonel.'" The army band broke into a new national anthem that nobody had ever heard before, and the 75,000 spectators liked the show well enough to refrain from breaking out with the bicycle chains they had brought along in case of dissension. For the U.N. officers in the reviewing stand, it was hard to escape the conclusion that Mobutu came closer than any of the Congo's myriad "leaders" to exercising effective power...
...discretion of the President and of the State Department. Mere candidates in their view should ignore their conventions' proclamations that foreign policy is the most important issue in the campaign. Our allies would prefer, according to Mr. Reston in yesterday's New York Times, that Kennedy and Nixon refrain from saying anything more about any aspect of U.S. foreign relations...
...quite possible that my longtime love for the home-town paper and Mr. Block's longtime production of wordless strokes of genius have something to do with it, but I cannot refrain from saying that your cover of Oct. 3 is a new peak, your finest! The figure of Castro alone says more than all the words of Sartre recently reported by TIME...