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Word: handcuff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand, we can underreact and simply assume that the relatively limited number of abuses in the past will not be repeated because we are more conscious of the problem today. On the other hand, we can overreact and so attempt to control potential abuses that we handcuff and handicap our intelligence effort out of business...

Author: By Stansfield Turner, | Title: Accountability vs. Secrecy | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

...violations. Most of the arrests are made in the new discos and coffee shops, many appealing to homosexuals, that have filled the entertainment vacuum left after the demise of such nightclubs as the Trocadero and the Mocambo. Hickman speaks with contempt of the masochists who keep repeating, as policemen handcuff them, "I love it, I love it." Says he: "Our policemen feel they are taking part in a perverted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Cleaning Up the Act in Hollywood | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Even if this baseball analogy meant nothing to you, empathize with the Crimson's sophomore netminder Jimmy Murray. A long bomb from center ice which was supposed to give B.U. enough time to change lines, seemed to surprise Murray and he let it handcuff him. It was a key goal for B.U. and Harvard's goalie knew it. His head slumped in disappointment until Levy Byrd, representing the whole team, glided by and whacked him on the pads to show him that the squad still supported...

Author: By Richard W. Edifman, | Title: Out in Left Field | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...Nixon continued, under the new law "we may well have been unable to respond" in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the Congo rescue operation in 1964 and other international crises that called for strong U.S. action. Moreover, he charged, the restrictions "give every future Congress the ability to handcuff every future President merely by doing nothing and sitting still," since the Chief Executive needs specific approval to continue operations past the 90-day mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Limiting the Power to Wage War | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

Mike O'Malley and Barry Malinowski are scheduled to start against the men in grey. Both O'Malley and Malinowski won their last starts and should be able to handcuff the weak-hitting Cadet batmen...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Batmen's Hopes for EIBL Crown Rest On Away Contests With Cornell, Army | 5/11/1973 | See Source »

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