Word: rein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimate solution, of course, will be to stamp out the gambling racket itself, but such a task is not one to be accomplished over night, and more immediate preventive measures are urgent. On the other hand, if gamblers were given a completely free rein they would soon succeed in putting themselves out of business by their unchecked bribery, which might quickly reduce all professional sports to the level of professional wrestling, upon which, for some reason, few bets are taken...
...glorious, benefits that full employment was to bring? The answer was that full employment was only half the prize; the other half was full production. To full employment the U.S. reacted much like a man who suddenly finds himself astride a powerful, rip-snorting bronco, with no bridle to rein...
...that may keep down inflation in Canada is not so much her new rules as the old fact that her price movements now lag behind those of the U.S. Thus, the inflationary pressures may not reach their peak in Canada until U.S. production is high enough to put a rein on prices...
...When he turned around and extended the two-week Manchurian truce by eight days, they were not so sure. Lo Lung-Chi, spokesman for the liberal Democratic League and one of China's keenest politicians, offered his analysis: "The Generalissimo is the kind of man who will rein in his horse at the edge of the cliff...
...dashing Prisoner Dudley had so bewitched Prisoner Elizabeth that she had fallen hopelessly in love with him. The rumor seemed to be confirmed nearly five years later, when Elizabeth rode in state to her coronation, and Robert Dudley, her newly created Master of the Horse, proudly held the leading rein of her snow-white palfrey. In one way or another, Robert Dudley, royal favorite and most envied man in England, was to hold the Queen's leading rein for the next 30 years...