Word: leash
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While the "drone" circles or dives at the end of its radio leash, a television tube, like an unwinking eye, watches the instrument panel, sends the readings of every dial to the screen in the radio truck. Other instruments send their readings direct on their own radio channels, recording on a moving paper strip such things as the flutter of the plane's wings, or the changing strain on its surfaces...
Said Farrell: "I have [never] written one line which a fair-minded human being can term 'pornographic'. . . . For some years now, the prejudiced forces of censorship have been straining at the leash in the United States in order to begin a new witch hunt against serious and honest writing. These forces [may] begin a reactionary campaign of legal book lynching in this country. Your Government . . . can well provide the necessary example...
Victor Moore, the theater's fatted Caspar Milquetoast, threw a stick in Manhattan's Central Park for his 2½-lb. Pomeranian. The Pomeranian went after the stick, and Actor Moore got a summons for letting the beastie off its leash. In an old revue sketch Moore played the role of a man who spits in a subway, fights a $2 fine, and winds up in the shadow of the gallows. In real life Moore just paid his $2 fine in court and tripped away. "If they issue summonses for dogs of this type," he croaked, "they should...
...alone really knows what love can mean, but hides her own love for the curate (Paul Henreid) because Charlotte loves him, too. Even when Charlotte whisks off to London, to be wined & dined by Thackeray (Sidney Greenstreet), Emily remains faithful to the moors. At length, her death slips the leash for Charlotte and the curate...
...Tokyo, General MacArthur talked about "unfettering" the Japanese press-but still kept it on a leash (see below...