Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firmnosa towards Russia will cause the U.S.S.R. to curb its expansionist program and would prevent war, President Conant told the seventeenth annual New York Herald Tribune forum Tuesday night...
...assaults from within and without the un-American fortress failed to curb the spirits of Dies or J. Parnell Thomas. While Dies took on the brunt of the opposition, Thomas counter-attacked vigorously. His main target was the Administration. In 1939, he urged Wall Street brokers to lobby for their own interests in Washington, against the "radical" and "subversive" groups in the country. For Thomas, those two adjectives were firmly welded together. Later, he said the New Deal was in a "hand-in-glove" conspiracy with he Communist Party, and that "the fifth column in the United States has flourished...
...story of the afternoon was summed up in a little incident that happened after the game. A brown limousine nosed through the post-game crowd carrying General Omar Bradley. All Cadets sprang to the curb and snapped to attention; the Harvard partisans continued undisturbed down the road to the parking-lots...
...Louis Post-Dispatch admonishes cubs, with good reason, that probe is to be "generally reserved for surgeons," and is not a synonym for investigate. (But, like aid, bar, ban, hit, quiz, curb, and other short verbs, it is a constant temptation to headline writers.) Since the days of famed Managing Editor O. K. Bovard, the P-D has had a ban against hit &run driver. It's bad taste, said O.K., to refer to a traffic tragedy in sporting terms...
MARCH 1948. The Russians take their first measures to curb rail traffic between Berlin and the Western zones...