Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production never drags. It does all that is humanly possible to curb Miller's obstinate philosophizing and heighten the playable moments in what seems on paper to be a pretentious bore. It is not so on the stage because the author, in spite of himself, has created real people...
...lawmen walked briskly out of Grays Hall and across Mass. Ave. Turning down Linden Street, they noticed that a large crowd had gathered in front of the Squash Courts. An ambulance was parked at the curb, and two attendants were carrying out the body. The Chief stopped the stretcher before it reached the ambulance and lifted one corner of the sheet. Biff blanched. The corpse was an unusually livid color and the face was twisted into a macabre grimace. Bundie swallowed hard and followed the Chief into the building...
...were caused by ineptness, not be a conscious policy of intimidation. But obtuseness in such delicate matters may still have restrictive effects. After being confronted by a barrage of questions from the FBI, foreign students, afraid of losing their visas, might retreat into political silence. Similarly, American students may curb their activism to avoid contact with the Bureau. Although they are legally under no obligation to answer questions unless subpoenaed, they are confronted by a distasteful dilemma: refusal to answer an agent's queries or an interview itself will "go on their record," hurting their chances for a government...
...chilling effect" on the "transcendent" First Amendment right of free speech. Under a 1962 anti-subversive law, Louisiana had charged three white civil rights officials with failing to register as Communist-fronters. The defendants claimed that the sweeping law was actually being used to deny free speech and curb integration. A federal court refused to intervene under the long-held "abstention" doctrine, which requires that a state court get first crack at the issues. Agreeing with the defendants, the Supreme Court voided the key provisions of Louisiana's law as unconstitutionally vague and held that federal abstention...
...shares in a company and use them as licenses to disrupt the meetings. They have made it so difficult for officers to get on to company business, and have so exasperated the mass of stockholders, that serious suggestions have been made that a way be found to curb their antics. Last week they were out in force...