Word: impound
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...Naturally, the first duty of the Bureau of the Dog, if staffed by the undersigned, would be to . . . impound the sad dogs, the intellectual poodle dogs and the pusillanimous pups which now infest our State Department . . . The President could ill afford to have more brains in the Dog Department than in the Department of State and, from this standpoint, his remarks to you are eminently justified...
...army had inspected most of Mrs. Planas' depots. They had in fact found a mass of war material, but most of it was useless. It had been kept in open lots, exposed to tropical sun and rain. Most of the gear was rusted beyond repair. The army did impound three Sherman tanks and three half-tracks that looked as if they could be repaired...
...more than an hour, Witkowski clung; to it, while people shouted, swirled and cussed around him. Some wanted to open the box right there: they suspected it had a secret inner panel. Finally Assistant Prosecutor Abraham Sepenuk showed up and agreed to impound it for grand-jury examination...
...parity law (TIME, Apr. 15, 1946) provides that if wheat falls to $1.89, the Government will start support-buying. If a farmer needs cash, the Government will lend him about $1.80 a bushel and impound his wheat in a federal granary. If the price rises, he can redeem the wheat and sell it at the increased price. Last week, a total of 20.5 million bushels, more than twice as much as last year, was impounded by such loss-proof gambling...
...Nazis, now had to bend their neutrality to a squeeze from the opposite side: they agreed 1) to cut off all except token shipments of important civilian goods between Germany and northern Italy; 2) to switch all the electric current they export from Germany to France; 3) to impound all German-owned bank balances and help the Allies track down all German-owned securities, etc. which have gone into hiding in Switzerland. This last, particularly, was important to Sweden, Spain, Portugal and Argentina, who also read the war news...