Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever Johnson's big black Cadillac pulls up to a curb, the President leaves from one door while from another pops Jack Valenti. At home, whenever the President wants his Cutty Sark and soda, the chances are Jack Valenti will be there with it. Even when Johnson is swimming nude in the White House pool, Jack Valenti is there-dutifully logging a daily eight laps alongside the President...
...being enlarged enormously by the computer's ability to simulate complex situations, weigh thousands of variables, and produce dependable decisions far faster than the human brain. By forecasting future markets, computers locate gas stations and branch banks in the most profitable places. By controlling runaway inventories, they curb one of the leading causes of recessions...
...World of Henry Orient is a precociously smart comedy that proposes juvenile innocence as an effective curb on adult delinquency. Chief delinquent is Peter Sellers, who as Concert Pianist Henry Orient attempts to seduce an undecided young matron (Paula Prentiss). Circling his prey in a lush Manhattan lair, he glances into the street, and blanches at what he sees: two diminutive furies, one as apple-cheeked and winsome as Heidi, the other an indescribable creature with sheep-dog hairdo, daredevil eyes, and a tacky mink coat that grazes her ankles. What do they want? "It's exactly the sort...
Pochop feels the squad has tremendous potential, but says it's difficult to tell more at this stage because there have been no outside practices yet. Some of the football instincts might be hard to curb, he fears. "It may take the line a while to get used to the idea that breakthroughs with gains of 5 or 10 yards aren't worth much in rugger. Getting it out to the backs and then following up may result...
...result was cacophonous. A car behind Martin smashed into him and spun sideways. Brakes squealing, slewing in the slush like slalom racers, car after car piled helplessly into the snarl. When things finally skidded to a stop, 34 cars were locked in a tangled mass, blocking the expressway from curb to curb-and providing a classic picture of what happens in modern civilization when the slightest thing goes wrong...