Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeing politically controversial books being sold under the counter, to seeing anti-Semitic slogans (A bas les juifs!) scrawled on walls. To live in France today is, in some neighborhoods, to take the rafle (police dragnet) for granted, to pass quickly by when the black wagons swing into the curb and the burly cops close in on a cafeé and tap each customer for his papers. It is to read, in the influential Le Monde, Editor Beuve-Meéry's melancholy series Simple Thoughts for Has-Beens "enclosed by a past which can no longer be sustained...
Frenzy soon set in. The aisles filled with dancers, and others got into the groove by jumping on their seats. The head of the 20 cops on hand decided that more light on the subject would help curb the crowd's antics. The house lights were turned up. Then, according to Arena Manager Paul Brown, sincere-faced "Deejay" Freed huffed: "I guess the police here in Boston don't want you kids to have a good time." Whatever Freed said, the effect was magical. The Arena really began jumping-while Brown paced his office, "praying it would...
...February, the opposition was already protesting rigged conditions. Candidates' deposits were suddenly jacked up from 5,000 African francs ($24) to 50,000 African francs, which is more than the annual income of most Togolanders. An old law, dating back to 1881, was resurrected to curb political rallies. Finally, the opposition charged that the government's list of registered voters excluded the names of thousands of independence supporters. Though the government reopened the lists, it closed the Ghana border, to stem the flow of pro-independence ideas from that newly independent state next door. Nevertheless, the nationalist fever...
...deportation with a ten-year series of habeas corpus writs, court restraining orders and appeals, including one appeal to the Supreme Court. But in handling Heikkila's latest delaying action in San Francisco's Federal District Court, his lawyer neglected to get a restraining order to curb Immigration's Barber. That oversight caught Barber's watchful eye. Letting his heaped-up frustrations overpower his judgment, he sent Immigration Service agents to grab Heikkila and haul him away...
...logical if not inevitable result of sectarianism. Zealous sectarians rise to power within sectarianism and have an irresistible urge to use it for sectarian ends. What is the source of this evil which divides every community, every country and the world? More important, what can be done to curb...