Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggests 200,000 motives, and a reconciliation is followed by the usual palaver about love, life and sleeping arrangements. They must curb their "primeval ahneemal appetites," says Gina, but she can't curb the bohemian in herself. In protest against unnamed bureaucrats who have requisitioned a fig leaf for a work of art, she defiantly agrees to march on the U.S. embassy just as Rock's boss arrives there. Gina appears as promised, sitting astride a white horse a la Lady Godiva, filling a flesh-toned body stocking that rolls all the way up to the neck. There...
They failed to destroy Wagner in Albany, but doubtless they will try again. For if the Kennedy coalition can substantially curb his influence, they will be able to reduce the power of the groups that support him--the Liberal party, the majority of the reform movement, and organized labor. Then they can divide the party into a series of feudal baronies, each county leader independent of the other, all owing allegiance to Kennedy. New York will have been transformed into another Massachusetts...
...world monetary system would become more stable, less vulnerable to crises of confidence. By tying the money supply to gold, the system would prevent overspending. In the U.S. and Britain, which now can pay their deficits out of their own currencies, it would impose a stern fiscal discipline, curb deficit financing and do away with many of the excesses that lead to inflation and recessions. Among other things, it would force the U.S. to eliminate its balance-of-payments deficit quickly, by hook or by crook...
...opposition to the bridge has maintained that without the act, the bridge would clearly be in violation of the City's building code which prohibits any building to extend beyond the curb line. Although not questioning the legality of the enabling act, William P. Homans, an ex-state representative from Cambridge, said that allowing the bridge to be built would represent "spot zoning" in spirit...
...that a car had already started out from Western Avenue, and swerved towards the river in order to avoid it. After hitting ice on the curb, he cut back and jammed on the brakes. The ear, a GTO Pontiac, skidded 200 feet and smashed into a tree on the right side of the road...