Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced her own plans to curb soccer violence. She said she will introduce legislation to outlaw the sale or possession of alcohol in soccer stadiums and on trains and buses that carry fans to games. In Liverpool last week police were examining videotapes of the tragic Brussels game to identify rioters who may face extradition to Belgium. A Liverpool delegation will also visit Turin next week in an attempt at reconciliation with a city where anti-British feeling has been intense in recent days...
...challenge of proliferation is grim, the situation could be much worse. Playing for time in the effort to curb further growth of the nuclear nemesis has never been time wasted. But the harsh fact cannot be brushed aside: ( proliferation is not an arcane and unpleasant prospect to be avoided but a reality that must be confronted. The world's spreading nuclear capability is far more dangerous than it used to be. Full recognition of that state of affairs is necessary if mankind is ever to quiet its nuclear fears...
...feel caged in hotel rooms wherever I go. In New Orleans, after the show we took a cab to Bourbon Street. I put a hat on and pulled it down low, but I stepped onto the curb and one person said, "There's Madonna," and then everybody said, "There's Madonna." We started walking down the street looking in windows and watching some jazz groups, and the more we walked, the more people started to follow us. The people don't want to hurt me. They just want to be near me. Actually it hasn't gotten to the point...
...President's critics dismissed the charges as an attempt to win public sympathy before announcing tough economic measures to curb the national inflation rate, now approaching 900%. Alfonsin's timing was troubling, even if the charges were untrue. They came on the eve of the opening of the civil trial of nine members of the military juntas that ruled the country from 1976 to 1982. The trial, in Buenos Aires' gothic Tribunales building, is expected to last for several months as six judges hear evidence of alleged human rights abuses against suspected subversives. An estimated 9,000 Argentines disappeared during...
...over 100 SDS [Student for a Democratic Society] protesters sitting in front of and behind it as it tried to move down Mill Street. Finally, McNamara emerged from the car in to the jeering crowd and was hoisted up on the hood of a convertible parked at the curb in front of McKinlock Hall...