Word: refrains
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...backers were certain that he alone could move to heal the racial, generational, and international crisis hobbling America. As one Boston female lawyer back from the funeral said Sunday. "He had more imagination, guts, and heart than the rest." According to his long-time adviser Adam Yarmolinsky, his constant refrain was "What can I do about...
...Washington's limited bombing pause, and he refused to broaden the discussions until the air raids end. If the U.S. insists on reciprocity, he suggested sarcastically, the North Vietnamese might reply by issuing a statement that Hanoi "commits itself from now on, as in the past, to refrain from bombing and all other acts of war on the entire territory of the U.S." Thuy inched a little closer to admitting that North Vietnamese troops are fighting in the South, but still refused to come right out and say so. Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman in turn handed Thuy...
...mill-in, a laugh-in when people are dying. And you remembered, and got just a little sick at your own smugness and aloofness and cursed yourself for looking at the tight pants when you should have been doing something, but what you wondered and wonder, and the revolutionary refrain from the man in the business suit played upon your mind...
After three hours of tumultuous debate, delegates to the founding convention of the new United Methodist Church last week voted to drop a longstanding requirement that its ministers vow to refrain from drinking and smoking. Henceforth, the church will simply require clergymen to, pledge "to exercise responsible self-control by personal habits conducive to bodily health, mental and emotional maturity," in accordance with "the highest ideals of Christian life...
...speech after speech, his constant refrain was Viet Nam-which, after all, is the issue that prompted Eugene McCarthy to challenge him in the first place and then jet-propelled Kennedy into the race...