Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curb Propaganda. "An end to the fomenting from without of civil strife" is necessary to Middle East stability. The U.N. should undertake to monitor "inflammatory" radio broadcasts "directed across the national frontiers" in the troubled Middle East. The President avoided naming names, but every delegate in the Assembly knew that he had in mind the recklessly subversive outpourings of Gamal Abdel Nasser's vitriolic Radio Cairo and Radio Damascus...
...complaints on the porches of his many homes, which adjoin his mills. He can also get tough. Lone Wolf Lobo has long conducted a single-handed battle against government controls and quotas. With the backing of most rival sugarmen, the Cuban government keeps tight control on the industry to curb overproduction and bolster prices. It also cooperates with the sugar workers' unions in crippling growers with restrictions that tie the industry to old-fashioned methods. Cuban millers, for example, cannot build a factory without destroying the old one first. Result: Cuba has not had a new sugar mill since...
With Relish. In Wilmington, Del., Ernest H. Carter was fined $550 for drunken driving after he pulled into a brightly illuminated suburban police station, tooted his horn, told a cop he was there for curb service, ordered coffee and a hamburger...
IMPORTS FROM U.S. will be cut by France to curb nation's soaring trade deficit. Rather than reduce nonessential imports from her European neighbors, which threaten to retaliate against French products, France will slash essential imports of coal, oil, machinery from...
...anti-Nixon riots, Communism turned into a full-blown political issue. Reflecting the outrage of the Roman Catholic Church and other conservative factions, the two civilian members of the ruling junta -Industrialist Eugenio Mendoza and Civil Engineer Bias Lamberti -demanded enforcement of Venezuela's anti-Red law to curb the burgeoning Communist Party. The three military members, reflecting the unrealistic tolerance of all major politicians, refused. Mendoza and Lamberti quit, bringing on a tense political crisis...