Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quotas for 25 nations. It has reluctantly led the way in trying to set up an international stabilization plan for coffee to save the world market from the results of coffee-planting binges. Last week 15 Latin American countries signed an agreement restricting coffee exports, but, by failing to curb overproduction, their real problem, left open the question of how long the agreement would work. Now the U.S. is also taking the lead in setting up a study group to plan a stabilization board for the world's hard-pressed lead and zinc producers. It favors these plans...
...more than 12" from curb...
...gunmen, he argued. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, who had a hand in Makarios' expulsion from the island in 1956, did not agree. He admitted that Makarios would have to be allowed to return to Cyprus eventually-but not until the archbishop gave advance proof that he would curb violence. The Cabinet compromised: Foot glumly went back to Cyprus last week with authority to permit Makarios' return at some indefinite future date (and whether violence ceases or not). But, meanwhile, Foot was ordered to push ahead with the British plan whether the Greek Cypriots like...
Near the end of the War the traditional "Ivy" founders of the sport began to show an uneasiness about the hold football had over Americans. In an attempt to curb certain practices adopted by colleges anxious to become football powers, the heads of Harvard, Yale and Princeton met and set forth the "Presidents' Agreement," which outlined specific rules to be followed in recruiting and giving aid to players...
...Slow the Arms Race. The U.N. should undertake "to see what arms control arrangements could be worked out" to curb, by voluntary agreement, the Middle East's "wasteful, dangerous competition in armaments...