Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High priority would go to repeal a legal curb which Labor has resented for 19 years-the ban on general and political strikes, passed by the Conservatives after the great strike...
Coolly Galya walked out of the house, explaining to the sentry that she was going for a doctor. At the curb, fellow guerrillas were waiting in a car. Today Galya is a Hero of the Soviet Union...
...Stalin summoned him to Moscow with orders to curb the zeal of the N.K.V.D., which was making the state more enemies than it was catching. Beria promptly purged the purgers, began what for Russia was a comparatively kid-gloved regime. Was it time again for the iron fist...
...Generalissimo Chiang and Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung to work out China's political unity, thus began its task under favorable auspices. Besides the truce, the P.C.C. heard other important news from the Generalissimo. The Government was taking steps to insure democratic civil rights, promote local self-government, curb the secret police, grant equality to "all legal parties," release all political prisoners except "traitors" and those guilty of "injurious acts against the Republic...
Alberta's Director of Communicable Diseases, Dr. A. Somerville, offered a word of neighborly counsel: selective sterilization had proved an effective curb to the birth of mentally defective children in Alberta, had worked "very satisfactorily...