Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspapers and press-agency offices. The respected daily O Estado de Sao Paulo was ordered to kill its morning edition because a critical editorial warned Costa e Silva: "You can't run a country of 80 million people like an army division." So rapid and efficient was the clamp down on the press and radio that few citizens became aware of the crisis. Under the bright sun, workers left for their weekends and fishermen placidly cast their lines from the banks of Guanabara...
Freezing Frames. The effect of Goldmark's system is to free individual TV receivers from the confinement of commercial broadcasting. Under its agreement with CBS, Motorola will produce briefcase-sized player units with wires that clamp onto the antenna terminals of existing TV sets. The viewer can then choose a film cartridge, drop it into the player, and dial an unused channel. The film, which automatically threads and rewinds itself, can carry nearly an hour of black-and-white viewing and can be stopped at any time for either individual "freezes" or to flip the frames through...
With surprising unanimity, economists and bankers in and out of Britain agree that Wilson waited too long to clamp down on domestic consumption. Forewarned that curbs were coming and fearful of higher prices, Britons went on a spending spree. Consumers not only bought up imports but helped to keep British industry from taking much advantage of its opportunities to sell abroad. "We definitely miscalculated by delaying as long as we did," admits Wilfred Brown, the Board of Trade's minister of state for exports. Even after Wilson belatedly imposed austerity measures-heavy new taxes, tight wage controls...
...back and help build humanist socialism. But if there is no chance of winning, how can I go back to face intellectual-and maybe even physical-death?" The answer is to plan their lives, in the phrase they often use, "for the time being." But barring a total clamp down on personal liberties, most plan to return eventually, particularly the intellectuals. "None of us has the right to do what we did, then leave when things blow up in our faces," says Journalist-Writer Antonin Liehm. "After all, we started...
Southern whites too were quick to see what was happening. In many small towns, the seemingly cheery acquiescence to Northern laws was in reality a cagey poker-face cover for continued Southern resistance. Bitter experience with the Northern press had convinced the whites that the best way to clamp down on Negro progress was to clamp down on Negro progress was to keep the press away; and the best way to do that was to avoid trouble. So the "White Only" signs disappeared, and so did the press...