Word: constraint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate the truth about Hungary, New Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro, the U.N.'s special representative on the Hungarian question, reported that eight Hungarian patriots have been secretly tried and executed recently and "there is imminent possibility of further executions." Sir Leslie noted with scathing constraint that the Communists barred him from visiting Budapest on grounds that the 1956 uprising was "a matter of domestic jurisdiction," yet continued to spread the "fanciful" and contradictory story that "the uprising was instigated by foreign powers...
Harvard's particular provincialism, then, lies not so much in the constraint of its limits as in its inability to see these limits. That Harvard is bounded is as unthinkable as the same statement applied to the universe; or, if one grants that it might be true, the analagous reaction comes forth: What is there outside? Harvard students have very little awareness of the just discrepancy between Harvard as they see it, and as it appears to others...
Nevertheless, a constant feeling of limitation and constraint hampers the orchestra and prevents the musical quality of their playing from attaining to the standard of their technique. Such a defect becomes particularly evident in a concert devoted to works like the "Eroica" Symphony, the G-Major Piano Concerto, and the "Egmont" Overture--works offering possibilities in interpretation and depth that are conspicuously avoided...
...drunken Charles being "absolutely carried home upon a man's shoulders thro' Silver Street, up Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing constraint that heralded the approaching Victorian era. He died in 1834, aged only 59 but thankful to have seen the last of a "damned, canting, unmasculine, unbawdy age." Mary, ten years his senior, outlived him by 13 years...
...result of such systematic repression of anti-Peronistas is that political conversations-except in private and out of earshot of servants or school-indoctrinated children-are unknown in the capital. In the eighth year of Perón, the atmosphere of constraint and fear that prevails in Buenos Aires is probably unequalled this side of the Iron Curtain...