Word: refrains
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...Middle East not to let the initiative slip away and not to allow the foes of peace to blow up the agreement or use it to cover up their aggressive designs," Brezhnev declared in a nationwide television broadcast. He strongly backed the Arab cause, but warned the guerrillas to refrain from troublemaking. Said Brezhnev: "What is needed is not new provocations and subterfuges designed to circumvent or violate the ceasefire agreement, but an honest observance of the agreement reached...
...ceasefire, which was drafted according to a U.S. proposal, covers a 100-km.-wide area, or roughly 31 miles on either side of the canal. Both sides are obligated to refrain from strengthening their military position in that area, which on the Egyptian side includes the points where Soviet crews would be most likely to install any new SAM missile launchers. It also includes numerous SAM sites already in existence. Theoretically, both the Arabs and Israelis are free to build up their military strength behind these lines. Whether they do so, of course, depends primarily on their big-power arms...
...warriors, their oiled bodies gleaming, danced and chanted, "Yao, yao, we abide, we abide, what was foretold has come to pass." Bells, gongs, metal castanets and deep-throated fontomfroms took up the refrain, then fell to a deep hush as the palace gates swung open. Walking majestically, the new King-or Asantehene-led the procession of sword-carrying royal guards, drummers, musketeers, elephant horn blowers, buglers and slaves. Because the King's person may never touch bare earth, his chamberlains chanted, "Walk slowly, my lord, watch that puddle, beware of the stone, walk slowly, my lord...
...like Joan Didion, you can count on her. Three pages into her new novel, the heroine says: "I am telling you how it was." That is the true Didion refrain. Whether in novels or essays, she is always trying to tell the way it is, always indicating the current physical and emotional temperature-it is usually over 100° outside and the climate of the soul is a parched desert...
...make sure a weight lifter's blood pressure is not continuously at an abnormally high level. If it is, he says, the patient should be forbidden to do any weight lifting. Other physicians agree with Breall and suggest that anyone with a tendency to high blood pressure should refrain from any form of isometrics, or static exercise, and consider instead such rhythmic exercises as swimming or jogging, which are preferable for the heart and circulatory system...