Word: leashed
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Surely an administrator who oversees dances and outings organized by HoCos, maintains a tight leash on the first-years during Freshman Week, and develops educational programs to teach students the basics of “shaking hands,” “saying hello,” and “interacting with members of the opposite sex” could limit the amount of dangerous awkwardness so common on this campus...
...President responded with a laugh. "I'm trying to put a leash on them," he said...
...invasion of Baghdad, President Bush has stage-managed the Iraq war like the patriarchal paragon of an earlier era, flouting his rigid style as not only the best way to maintain rule of the roost, but also the only appropriate one. Wielding a firm hand and a tight leash (literally, in the case of Abu Ghraib), the Bush administration has been crystal clear about its house rules: dissent is disregarded (and, in some cases, ridiculed); information is routinely withheld; and input from members of our global family deemed bothersome...
CREATIVE TOURNIQUET: A surf leash...
...beautifully carried off, providing the show's one hair-raising thrill. But between these two are far too few memorable moments. It's just not in Lloyd Webber to deliver low-key satisfactions. Big sweeping melodies are what he does best, and here the strain of his self- imposed leash suffocates the drama. It doesn't help that the lyrics, by David Zippel, from the adaptation of the book by Charlotte Jones, are mostly flat when they should seep with accumulating terror. The script is also far less subtle than the original. Collins' Fosco is a fascinating creation - obese, aging...