Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a limit, he said, to the money the U.S. could invest in its own security. Added General Bradley: "It is clearly apparent that in the absence of any precipitant danger, the nation must curb within reason that share of the national income it would devote to its common defenses . . . The danger of conflict today appears to have slackened, partly because we are chewing sedatives in this constant war of nerves...
...Denver one day last week, a motorist pulled up to the curb in front of the Colorado State Bank. He rolled down his window, and began talking to what looked like a grey steel mailbox at the curb. It was no mailbox, but a "snorkel" (so called after the German submarine air intake) for curbstone banking...
...Rayburn first went to work in his own party, got a Democratic caucus to curb the committee's power. After five stormy hours, the caucus decided that henceforth the chairman of any House committee which reports a bill will have the right to call up the bill for consideration by the whole House, after the Rules Committee has sat on it for 21 days. Then, the plan was put before the entire House. By a voice vote the changes became...
City law also prohibits parking on the left side of any one-way street, upon any sidewalk, upon any crosswalk, more than one feet from the curb, less than ten feet from a fire hydrant, or in front of any private road or driveway...
...discover that the smog had assumed peculiar qualities was a man walking home late at night. He was seized with a paroxysm of choking. But he had little time to reflect on the fact that the fog had assumed an odd, penetrating odor. He sat down on the curb, toppled over and died...