Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marine Corps Major General George Cloud called the 176th meeting of the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom and delivered a blistering attack on his Communist opposite number, sleepy-eyed General Chung Hwan Chang, demanding that he curb his "bloodthirsty marauders." Chang insolently replied that North Korea was not at fault and that, undoubtedly, "you have deliberately murdered some of your own personnel in a scheme serving your political purposes." When Cloud displayed a collection of weapons taken from the slain North Korean raiders, Chang picked up"~a pistol and made as if to shoot the American. "Where is your dignity...
...their moral granite, the Scots clearly had their problems. A 1661 statute, designed to curb rebellious youth, decreed that any "sonne or daughter above age of sextein yeers not being distracted [demented] shall beate or curse their father or mother shall be put to death without mercy." On the other hand, the loss of some of the old laws might be said, from a dour point of view, to contribute to modern decadence. Among them: repeal of a prohibition (1579) against "gamyng and playing, passing to tavernis and ail-houses and wilfull remaning fra [away from] the paroche kirk...
Canada's trade balance may have received some help from the "Buy Canada" program, with billboards urging Canadians to curb their appetite for imports. "It's just good business to keep your own customers employed," says Brownridge. His American Motors (100% U.S.-owned) won Ontario's "A for Achievement" by increasing its Canadian purchases 500% since 1961. White Motor Co. of Canada is testing a Canadian-designed combination battery box and gasoline tank that the U.S. parent company may adopt for all White trucks. But on many manufactured items, Canadian productivity and pricing simply cannot compete. "Several...
...festive rights following the official ceremonies became so excessive that the Board of Overseers made frequent but always unsuccessful attempts to curb Commencement behavior, even to the extent of banning "plum cake," which the Overseers observed, was never served in European universities...
...true situation and the means at his command . . . He knows what can be the foundations of his future power. Confronted with parliaments, senates, assemblies, press, public opinion, he knows at any moment how far they are real or only imaginary, and makes frank use of them . . . He will curb his impatience and know no flinching . . . There is no study too toilsome...