Word: rein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...died.* We owe him a tremendous debt . . . our next number will be in his memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played it with such intensity, and with so taut a rein on their emotion, that there was not even one absent-minded handclap from the 900 listeners...
...years ago, Arcaro got an SOS call from Ben Jones in Louisville, four days before the Derby. Whirlaway had Ben worried; he wouldn't go around turns. The more other jockeys fought him, the more he drifted wide. Trouble-shooter Arcaro experimented in a workout; he took a long rein and let Whirlaway follow another horse around the turn. It worked so well that Whirlaway (Arcaro up) won the Derby by eight lengths in the fastest time it has ever been...
Thundered the Archbishop of Lyon: "This abominable dance kills virtue, and gives rein to every appetite." At an Atlanta, Ga. Bible conference, Dr. Campbell Morgan declared that the tango was a reversion to the ape. A New York doctor announced a new disease, the tango foot. In Paris, the Argentine ambassador added his censure. "The tango," said he, "is a dance peculiar to the houses of ill fame in Buenos Aires and is never cultivated at respectable gatherings...
...hearings is frightening in its connotations and its consequences are begin felt adversely in every movie coming out of Hollywood today. It is obvious from its own records that the committee went into the hearings with the verdict already a certainty. Thomas let the "friendly" witnesses have free rein, permitting them to make all kinds of accusations and vilifications under the cloak of immunity. No one that fell under these torrents of abuse was allowed to defend himself in any way or to cross-examine his accuser. Neither were the "defendants" permitted to read their prepared statements or to reply...
According to Harris the relevant issue is the danger of completely free rein for Republican policies which the Wallace campaign helps to ensure. He cited both reactionary domestic economic policy and perversion of the European Recovery Program for business interests as the "kind of the nonsense you could expect to get out of the Republicans and their Wallaceites supporters...