intermit

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With the cold war's intermit tent crises no longer seeming so momentous, one eye of U.S. foreign policy has shifted to the long view.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is quite enough of time for taking care of the outer man, and any one careful of his health will be sure to intermit one or two of these seasons.

From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by Choules, J.O.

General Scott, nevertheless, though equally anxious to terminate the conflict, did not for a moment intermit his military vigilance.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Mayer, Brantz

Only in the early morning, and for an hour, or an hour and a half after lunch, did Claude intermit his labors.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner

Let Euclid rest, and Archimedes pause: intermit for a day your severe mathematical studies.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John