Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Athos tries to curb his profanity, but he has no desire at all to curb his feelings. "The student is concerned with feeling?even more than with knowledge and thought," he argues. "Where knowledge is overemphasized, students are merely vessels; then they can open the trap and flush it all into blue books. We have intellectual athletes exercising great muscles in the making of intellectual doilies." This may be "the age of the big cool," says Athos, but the good teacher must "burn...
...still largely in open rebellion against the Saigon government and completely removed from its control. Pleading for moderation, Tri Quang tried to calm the northern cries for Ky's immediate ouster. Speaking in Hue, he said bluntly: "Your demands do not meet the general consensus, so you must curb them. That is the first start of a democracy." Next day, addressing a crowd of 10,000, including 2,000 soldiers, at the Dieu Da Pagoda, the fiery-eyed monk argued that "what we want is a democratic structure. We are making a revolution, not a coup...
...Sacrificial Goats." The interest hike got few cheers from anyone. "We don't want to be sacrificial goats in the effort to curb inflation," grumbled President Larry Blackmon of the National Association of Home Builders last week. "We believe other sectors in the economy should share in the restraints...
...Johnson Administration is clearly losing its campaign against documentary inflation. Despite the President's orders to curb what he calls "paperwork run wild," the new agencies, new projects and new functions of the Great Society are piling up Himalayas of foolscap. The House Subcommittee on Census and Statistics, which last week ended a round of hearings on the subject (also voluminous), showed that the Government now prints twelve different forms each year for every American, circulates more than a billion all told, many for eventual return and storage. Washington spends $7 billion annually to make, process and store this...
...their outstanding foreign loans by $385 million during January and February. Though industry plans to step up its in vestment in foreign plant and equipment by 24% to a record $8.8 billion this year, much will come from dollars borrowed abroad. What else can the Administration do to curb the deficit? Says Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr: "The possible courses of action clearly point at the tourist." Of course, as Barr knows, there are political hazards in offending the millions of American tourists now flocking abroad by putting controls on their spending...