Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk was easy and calm, not about the coming war or the coming depression. Moderation was the rule. In Chicago, City Park Superintendent Walter Wright announced that police would not use tape measures this summer to check on indecent exposure at the city's bathing beaches, but would limit themselves to reasonable judgment of what is proper. Said Wright: "People are not going to the extremes they used...
...owes its inspiration to the 1941 Atlantic Charter and the declaration of the Four Freedoms. But its very name reflects a desire to limit its aim. Three weeks after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, who had been groping for a name for the anti-Axis alliance, awoke in the White House with the phrase on his lips. Rising, F.D.R. wheeled his chair to the guest suite, where the sound of running water drew him to the bathroom door. He pushed the door open and called out to the august figure sitting in the bathtub: "How about United Nations?" There...
...Pont was on hand with a Flit gun. If any dress or suit was too bright or shiny for the TV cameras, he was there to spray it with liquid wax to dull the luster. As TV's top costume designer, Du Pont knows that there is a limit to how brilliant a dressmaker should be. That limit is reached when viewers start looking at the clothes rather than at the people wearing them...
...University's newest sport may be petitioning for permission to break the Charles River's 15 miles per hour speed limit next year. If the plans of brothers Bill and Dick Hanmer to establish a Crimson power boat racing team materialize...
...never think of devoting his life to farming or even less of entering the civil service. A schoolteacher's child can conceivably become a successful lawyer, and a winegrower's son, with luck and capital, may operate a thriving tractor agency. One can be hopeful - to a limit...