Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning last week a sleek black Mercedes limousine with official license plates glided up to the curb; the chauffeur nodded amiably to the plainclothes policeman who had taken up station on the sidewalk during the night. Both beamed as Ludwig Erhard emerged from No. 8 to ride to Parliament and be confirmed as the new Chancellor of West Germany...
Interim Premier Giovanni Leone's recent attempt to curb credit was shot down by the right, left and center, since no party is willing to incur the wrath of legions of cambiali signers. But unless Italy soon brings its credit binge under control, its economic miracle could, like a butterfly, just flutter away...
Trembling at the Thought. While noting that U.S.-Soviet conflicts "are real," and that "our concepts of the word are different," the President listed six possible areas of "peaceful cooperation." Five were old hat - prevention of war by mistake, safeguards against surprise attack, further steps to curb the nuclear arms race, a freer flow of information and the prohibition of nuclear weapons in outer space...
...January 1955, the U.S., at Diem's request, took over the primary responsibility for the training of the Vietnamese army as part of Dulles' effort under the SEATO treaty to curb Communist subversion in Southeast Asia. Though the U.S. poured in lavish economic aid, the total U.S. military strength assigned to the Military Assistance Group did not exceed 2,000 men. But as the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas began increasing their terrorist attacks against the government, the U.S. started to get seriously concerned. In October 1961, General Maxwell D. Taylor visited South Viet Nam, came back with...
...removed from the presidential palace. She was flattered by the attention, and also brags that the U.S. has tried unsuccessfully for years to get Diem to curb her power. She bitterly attacks the anti-Diem U.S. press corps in Saigon and accuses Americans generally of being a lot of "Ivanhoes"?perpetually in love with the underdog but confused about just who the underdog...