Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the Assembly was a resolution submitted by the U.S., Britain, France and China, asking that the Big Five voluntarily curb their veto power in the Security Council. To the little nations, who had spent a year drafting the resolution, it was the most important business on the agenda. New Zealand's Sir Carl Berendsen cried: "I would give my right hand for the success of this organization...
Last week Acting President Li wanted the nest egg back. He needed it, he said, to curb inflation-although a lot more was obviously needed for that Herculean task than the Gimo's reserve. Li also wanted the treasure to pay Nationalist troops along the Yangtze in hard cash, thus boost their morale. To Fenghua went old Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, governor of Shansi province, to plead with Chiang for return of the funds...
...loneliness. When he goaded President Wilbur Norton and four vice presidents into leaving last year (TIME, May 31 et seq.), he persuaded three other vice presidents, who had also threatened to resign, to stay on. But he neither forgot nor forgave their participation in "the Norton conspiracy" to curb some of Avery's dictatorial power. Last month he decided how he would take his reprisal...
...Organizing swiftly to expedite the President's program, the House adopted measures to curb the power...
...Gibson, an ex-B-29 pilot, was at the lower end of the snorkel, twelve feet down in a cashier's cage beneath the sidewalk. By means of a periscope and a loudspeaker running up through the steel box, he could see and talk with customers at the curb. They could also see him in a periscope mirror in the box and talk back. By dropping their bank books and deposits into an electric dumbwaiter, customers could do their banking in one minute without leaving their cars...