Word: curtail
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Rather than curtail the privilege of living off, the College should extend it to all seniors. The Houses have something to offer, but no one should be forced to spend three years in them. And if the Tenth House would result in stopping the present trickle of students away from the campus, I would rather see the money for its construction cast into a concrete block and ceremoniously lowered into Boston Harbor. Walter Wanning...
...attempt to commit themselves to the authority of the church during any apparent conflict between it and their own doubts on some moral issue. The idea of authority in the church is very sublime and beautiful if properly understood. True acceptance of the church's authority should not curtail one's freedom within the church...
...wary Buddhists and Catholics. Last week 25,000 Catholics staged a unity march in Saigon, which was orderly except for a militant minority that carried banners urging U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to GO HOME. Many Catholics believe thai odge was instrumental in the U.S. decision to curtail aid to Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem prior to Diem's overthrow and murder. However, others in the crowd tore down the anti-Lodge signs...
...subject to presidential approval, banning discrimination in such programs. They would cut off such assistance if discrimination persisted. Before such action, however, voluntary compliance with the rules would have to be sought and the contemplated action reported to an appropriate committee of the House and Senate. A decision to curtail funds could be appealed in the courts...
...Presiding Bishop's decision was not all that much of a surprise. Chosen to succeed the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill in 1958, Bishop Lichtenberger, 64, was forced to curtail his speaking activities last spring because of Parkinson's disease. He underwent a hernia operation in September, later fell ill with phlebitis; his letter to the bishops admitted that he had made "little progress" in recovering the control over speech he lost as a result of Parkinson's disease...