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...Listen to this." Since then, Purtan says, "people have been going crazy, calling up to play Old Folks at Home, Happy Birthday and everything else." One Detroit lawyer is being driven to distraction, Purtan says, because his phone number corresponds to the hallowed "shave and a haircut, two bits" refrain...
...recognize Bangladesh, and 3) most important, accept New Delhi's view that the Indian-Pakistani balance of power no longer exists on the subcontinent. In return, the Indian government is prepared to offer guarantees to Washington that it supports the principle of an independent Pakistan and will refrain from any kind of interference in Pakistani affairs...
...restraining order commanded that HSWOC "desist from and refrain from (1) illegally picketing: and (2) annoying, harassing and intimidating employees or customers while on the picket line...
Gonna hit you!" Some of the catch phrases in these routines have already become part of the slang of the '70s. The best known is the refrain with which a black minister's wife explains her every goof, whether it is buying an expensive dress or ramming her car into the side of the church: "The devil made...
...great extent whatever guilt or bad feeling exists in Israel stems from the fact that they, a nation of victims and refugees, have caused suffering to another people, the Arabs, and out of their national hopes engendered hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees. In light of the familiar Nazi refrain, "We were only following orders," the Israeli public has become extremely sensitive to the preservation of individual humanity amid the exigencies of warfare: a furious controversy ensued when the Tank Corps established as its philosophy that there was to be no room for personal initiative, but rather in view...