Word: refrains
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...should refrain from your unflattering adjectives of the people you disagree with. I could give you a few for Mr. Stevens with his hedging on Peress and Mr.Welch playing to the audience for laughs...
...first session, Senator Mundt set a properly pompous keynote by asking the spectators to "refrain from any demonstrations of approval or disapprobation." his colleagues rapidly followed suit, allowing nothing, including rules of syntax, to interfere with their selections of elegant variations and high-blown pariphrases. One Senator asked, to find out who had begun some action, "Would you state that that was motivated from the Senator's (McCarthy) end of the line...
...Monday that Finley had influenced him to oppose the prevailing House sentiment, which is in favor of a dance. "The Social Committee and the House as a whole would like to have some social function that Friday," he said, "but the House Administration has indicated that it desires 'we refrain from any organized activity...
...John Beaty has developed some strong opinions and theories about the U.S., and he has never been one to refrain from spouting them in class. Once he spent a whole hour blasting Felix Frankfurter and Henry Morgenthau Jr. ("Now, I haven't a thing to say against the Jews . . . But for God's sake, do you think we can trust the Government of the United States to them in a crisis?"). Last year a Jewish student complained that his dominant impression of Beaty's course was "reference after reference . . . made in a slurring manner, against members...
...that he didn't expect to see cards like that placed on the table. "The Russians," he said, "never play anything but clubs." Now, however, that there was something else to wait for -the Geneva conference in April-anti-EDC voices were again heard in Paris. Their new refrain: France must not provoke the Russians by approving EDC so long as there is a chance of ending the Indo-China war at Geneva...