Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rebel Yells. The crowd was small when the chartered Nixon Convair landed at the Birmingham airport, but people ran out of factories and office buildings to line the curb as Nixon's blue convertible came into the city. Firecrackers boomed and swirls of paper floated down from office windows. A crowd of 15,000-as big as Ike's in 1952-filled Woodrow Wilson Park and spilled into adjoining streets to hear the Vice President speak...
...eyes of easily distracted average readers regress eight to eleven times per 100 words. Teacher Wood's beginning students curb this tendency by running their fingers under each line, then every other line, until they learn the "whirlaway motion"-a series of circular sweeps down the middle of the page. In 2½-hour sessions (plus one hour of daily practice), they read faster and faster against a clock, get constant quizzes on comprehension...
BANK OF ENGLAND raised bank (i.e., rediscount) rate from 5% to 6%, second highest in world's industrial nations. Object: to curb inflation and reduce Britain's trade deficit, currently at $171 million...
...neighborhood race for bigger and better plastic swimming pools, cars and power mowers is still being run in some suburbs, and in still others, the chief warm-weather occupation is neighbor watching (Does she hang her laundry outside to dry? Does he leave his trash barrels on the curb after they have been emptied?). In Long Island's staid, old Garden City, observes Hofstra Assistant Sociology Professor William Dobriner, "they don't care whether you believe in God, but you'd better cut your grass." In close-by Levittown, a poll of householders some time ago showed...
...Caesar did in his own Commentaries), but considering that a million tribesmen were killed and another million taken prisoner, Warner's account of the campaigns is curiously bloodless. All the other facts are equally familiar-the First Triumvirate, the attempt by Pompey and a senatorial faction to curb Caesar's growing authority, the crossing of the Rubicon and the outbreak of civil war, Pompey's flight and Caesar's mastery of all Italy. By couching his narrative in the first person, supposedly in the hero's own words, the author tries to capture the view...