Word: refraining
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...condolences that flooded Schulz's office after news of his retirement from "Peanuts" and then crested over into his household after his death are dominated by a single refrain: The handwritten response I received from Charles Schulz at a critical moment in my development changed forever the course of my life. He influenced two generations of comic strip artists, standup comedians and readers everywhere. But unlike other seminal figures of American mass culture in the 1960s and '70s - Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, Andy Warhol - Schulz had no itch to be a teacher, a guru, a manufacturer of lesser artists...
...openly discussing a strategic alliance with China and India to curb U.S. power on the global stage and, perhaps most important to Washington, looking to secure new orders for his country?s arms industry. Only days before the U.S. presidential election, Russia withdrew from an agreement with Washington to refrain from selling weapons to Iran. The U.S. has yet to react. And the Bush administration's vow to press ahead with National Missile Defense puts the U.S. and Russia on a collision course over strategic arms issues...
...Expect to hear that refrain a lot - in fact, the budding Bush team is already under some fire from the current White House for "talking down their own economy for short-term political positioning," as Gene Sperling put it. But political positioning is done for a reason - it works...
Their cheers included the lines "Clap once for revolution, clap twice for opposition," and the refrain "We can rock the streets...
...songs included "O Rest Ye Gap Executives." The song--sung to the tune of "O Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"--featured the refrain "O tidings of Gap sweatshops and lies/dangerous lies/O tidings of Gap sweatshops and lies...