Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although some Cambridge citizens assert that the rats--or whatever they are--come from the Charles, some have suggested that they come from Boston, where demolition of buildings is taking place. "At any rate," Vellucci said, "we should find out, and curb what threatens to a bigger problem...
...surround him, and by the stark fear that his fundamentalist theories will attract every manner of extremist to his banner. "He is a man filled with warmth," says former Eisenhower Speechwriter Malcolm Moos, who worked in Bill Scranton's foredoomed campaign. "But I fear his inability to curb his friends and some of the extreme zealots on the right...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A New Yorker new to Washington notices one thing almost immediately: the extraordinary deference local pedestrians pay to passing motorists. They actually stand patiently--on the curb--while a red light flashes its warning. When it turns green in their direction, and all vehicles grind obediently to a halt, Washingtonians finally plod across the street. No muss, no fuss, no howling drivers, no bruised pedestrians, no frantic policemen...
...closed. Partially completed elevated highways have cut the road time from airport to city to 40 minutes or so. The high-speed railway that will carry passengers the 300 miles from Tokyo to Osaka in three hours is ready to run-but company officials must figure out how to curb suicide-minded Nipponese who want to be among the first to fling themselves under the fascinating wheels...
...preservation of peace and good order exclusively to the states, said the law professors. But the argument has been without merit since 1879, when the Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Government's power to command obedience to its laws "on every foot of American soil." Prudence may curb this power in Mississippi, noted Kennedy's critics. But it is "disappointing and ironic that the Department of Justice, which has been bold beyond precedent in successfully urging the Supreme Court that the judiciary possesses the broadest powers to enforce the constitutional assurances of equality, should now discover nonexistent barriers...