Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present ban on spring practice would stay in force under the proposal. The question of participating in post-season all-star competition has been left up to the decision of the presidents. They may either clamp a ban on this practice too, or decide to leave it up to the individual colleges...
Francis Godolphin, Princeton Dean, immediately called a meeting of the university disciplinary committee "to clamp down on excesses this weekend," he said...
...republic for a five-year term. The National Assembly which voted him the office was Pérez Jiménez' own private Parliament, hand-picked last November after an embarrassingly bobbled election in which the returns ran so strongly against his candidates that he had to clamp on a three-day censorship and doctor the electoral count to wrap himself in the much-desired cloak of legality...
...conduct of investigating committees, Ike said that moral and constitutional values must be preserved. But he made it clear that he was not about to try to clamp down on congressional investigative power...
Gary's house is packed with books, furniture, works of art, musical instruments -the accumulated treasures of a full life. His tousled study on the top floor under the eaves is lined with bookcases and filing boxes. Clamp boards holding notes and exhortations to himself are braced against the wall, and specially built slots in his old-fashioned desk hold sections of whatever book he is working on, folders with scraps of dialogue and random ideas. He writes his books in bits & pieces, may drop one section to tackle another, and sometimes drops the whole thing to work...