Word: refrains
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...segment of the Mass were echoed by Owen's line, "What passing-bells for these who die like cattle," while the distant menace of battle was evoked by the orchestra's strident tuba fanfare. A Latin lament sung by U.S. Soprano Ella Lee, was the refrain for the verses...
...Enrico Fermi Award "for his leadership in thermonuclear research," Dr. Edward Teller, 54, who dislikes being called the father of the hydrogen bomb, had just one request. "I would appreciate it," he said, "since this for me is a nice occasion, that you refrain from calling me the father of anything...
...would involve the use of the armed forces." In other words, the U.S. could blunder into military action by accident. Furthermore, "if any elements of armed forces embarked from Cuba for any neighboring countries," U.S. military force would be used to "intercept" the invaders. But as long as Castro refrains from intervening outside Cuba, Rusk seemed to say, the U.S. will refrain from intervening inside Cuba. And so, the Soviet buildup will continue apace...
That ban is real. But it does not prevent high-altitude U.S. reconnaissance planes from flying within peeping distance -generally about 100 miles-of Russian borders. Nor does it include a pledge to refrain from flying over Communist nations other than Russia, including Red China...
Message from Maine. The Kremlin could not resist using the new space flights to make some propaganda, asked the U.S. to refrain from nuclear tests that might endanger the cosmonauts. The U.S., which had scheduled no tests anyway, quickly reassured the Russians. From his weekend retreat in Boothbay Harbor, Me., President Kennedy saluted Russia's "exceptional" feat, as well as the "courage of the two astronauts." said: "The American people wish them a safe return." In the year since Titov rocketed into orbit, the Soviet man-in-space program has been curiously grounded. Russia sent up only seven scientific...