Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agriculture, and took complete control of foreign trade. One Saturday afternoon, he grabbed the nation's 24 foreign and domestic banks. Britain's prestigious Lloyd's bank was renamed People's Bank No. 19, and the same fate befell two Red Chinese banks, putting a crimp in Rangoon's Communist propaganda machine...
Indonesia knows that a pro-Western, anti-Communist federation would put a serious crimp in Sukarno's ambition to absorb oil-rich Brunei and its two neighbors. He also is anxious as usual for an issue to deflect mounting public criticism over Indonesia's growing economic crisis. Fearing that Sukarno is itching to start something, Malaya's Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman appealed to London for reinforcements. The British obligingly put 2,000 crack troops on a 72-hour alert to reinforce its Southeast Asia forces, because of "the possibility of outside interference...
...Corrupt local officials are putting a crimp in U.S. economic aid. Food for the peasants is spirited away and sold by local chieftains; other aid vanishes in transit to the provinces...
...snatching away Mantle's milk money, the FTC took a line that could put a painful crimp in the $500 million-a-year business of testimonial advertising. Does Arthur Godfrey really use Sucaryl? Does Comedian Tom Poston actually sip Heublein martinis? Is it a fact that New York Giants' Quarterback Charley Conerly deodorizes himself with Trig? If the FTC vigorously enforces its policy, an eager world may yet learn the answers to all these questions and more...
...Castro's troubles increased, the U.S. pondered ways to put a crimp in the Castro war machine. The U.S. plans an embargo on certain exports, in the name of "economic self-defense." Specifically, the U.S. is increasingly concerned at the vast arms depots (mostly from Belgium and Czechoslovakia) collecting in Cuba, far more than necessary for the island's own self-defense. It therefore wants to limit Cuba's access to such paramilitary items as auto and aircraft parts, tires, tools, special chemicals, oil-cracking catalysts, etc. It will not issue a blanket embargo (food and medicines...