Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist left, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, is running strong for next June's presidential elections, the Peruvian army promised to block his presidency. "Haya," said a general, "will not set foot in the presidential palace." One Latin American who acted to curb the infection was Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, who was himself once stripped of executive power by Venezuela's military. Betancourt refused to recognize the new Argentine government, recalled his diplomats from Buenos Aires, and sent a cable to 15 hemisphere presidents, including Kennedy. Declared Betancourt: "Legitimate government...
...Anglican priest, studied theology after Cambridge. When a wartime stint in the R.A.F. eroded his faith, he turned his fervor to children. Eight years ago, he took over Burgess Hill "to establish a community in which the individual can find out for himself the extent to which he must curb his personality so he can work well with others...
...educational consultant's discovery that some Midwest grade school students cannot spell. Another story speculated for Observer readers on what it would be like if Algerian-style plastiqueurs were loose in New York: "On any given Saturday night in Times Square a car would pull up to the curb and spray machinegun bullets into the crowds ... A bomb would be thrown into New York's Carnegie Hall . . . Taxi drivers, bus drivers and mailmen would be killed in every section of the city. Crowded Harlem tenements would be blown up on an average of one a month...
...Lowry, the charge stems from the fact that two Klu Klux Klan leaders, taken from their car by a group of Negroes, were forced to take refuge in Williams's house. Lowry said his only part in the incident was to move the Klansman's car to the curb...
...look at the solid building in Manhattan's Trinity Place that houses the American Stock Exchange, it would seem that the old days of the raucous Curb Exchange were far behind. But last week the Securities and Exchange Commission, after closeting itself for a seven-month study, issued a 127-page report excoriating the practices of the nation's second largest stock exchange, and suggesting that too many vestiges of its past still hang...