Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special protocol provides for future signature by any victim of German aggression which borders on either Czechoslovakia or Russia. A liberal interpretation of the aggression clause might qualify a free and reconstituted Austria for membership, and both Russians and Czechs unquestionably would like to tie up Austria as another curb on German militarism...
Lord Louis' command embraces a conglomerate collection of British, Indian, Burmese, Chinese and American soldiers, the Royal Navy and the Royal Indian Navy, the R.A.F., the I.A.F., the U.S. Tenth Air Force and presumably the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force. His first job was to coordinate their functions, curb jealousies, instill discipline, create unity...
This was a poor imitation of the sensational Original Dixieland Jazz Band, then making the word jazz famous. But after two years Lewis left Rector's with a reputation for the musical clowning that has remained his stock in trade for a generation. It was on the curb outside Rector's that he acquired the battered, furry top hat which W. C. Fields later taught him to twirl with uncanny virtuosity. Lewis won it in a crap game from the driver of a hansom...
...Instantly the sky blazed with flame. My father . . . fired and reloaded and fired again. . . . My mother . . . screamed frantically." Dropping his empty gun, father leaped into a police car, "zigzagged wildly from curb to curb" in hot pursuit. The screaming made Mrs. Sousa tense, as she lay in bed drinking bottled beer. Father tossed the captured children on to the grass "as if they were bags of mail." "These kids ought to be in Sing Sing," he snarled. "Won't you children come in for a little ice cream?" called Mrs. Sousa from her window...
...save gas, taxis on the main downtown thoroughfares were ordered to wait for fares in the middle of the street instead of pulling in to the curb...