Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desperate case of Mrs. Lowman, doctors operated for the first time on a new theory. Since antibodies are born in blood cells produced in the bone marrow, it might be possible to curb them by destroying the marrow itself. No mechanism would then remain to reject a transplanted tissue. New bone marrow, from several donors to minimize antibody hostility, could then be injected intravenously...
...years ago the Chinese Communists, trying to curb an annual population growth of 15 million, revived the ancient Chinese myth that a dose of tadpoles after each meal is an effective oral contraceptive. Thousands of women promptly rushed to dirty lakes and rivers to scoop up tadpoles with rice bowls. One result: widespread schistosomiasis (infestation with blood flukes). Even worse, the government admitted ruefully last week, women who religiously swallow tadpoles get pregnant just the same...
Drive-Up Phones. Curb phones which motorists can use without leaving their cars are being installed by the Illinois Bell Telephone...
Other factors that he put in the "unfortunate" category were the tight money policies of the Federal Reserve System designed to curb the 1956-57 inflation, and a sharp drop in defense spending...
Paul A. Samuelson, professor of Economics at M.I.T., last night urged immediate government action to curb the present recession. In so doing, he leveled an attack at the administration, President Eisenhower in particular, for its over-cautious stand in the current crisis...