Word: rein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trips to Havana and Rio, hard-dancing Leon Henderson mastered the rumba and the samba. This week the ex-OPA boss was off to Guatemala where he was expected to pick up the native son. With other U.S. experts, he would refurbish Guatemalan economy, try to rein in the country's galloping inflation...
...obliged to make a public apology. In 1939, his tour of duty as CNO completed, Mr. Roosevelt sent him to Puerto Rico to govern that hot and troubled island. The President did not pack him off to get him out of the way. Puerto Rico needed a steadying rein. It got it. The retired Admiral governed with a fair, gloved hand. A newspaper columnist nicknamed him El Lija, a Spanish play on his name which translates, "The Sandpaper." But the people cheered him when he left and even threw flowers in his path...
Hailed as the successor to "Claudia," "The Enchanted Cottage" maintains that rare quality of its predecessor, the retention of stage devices on the screen. Progressing from "Claudia," it gives the camera a freer rein and escapes the charge of not taking advantage of its medium. Still, there are no airplane duels or automobile chases in "The Enchanted Cottage": the tranquility and reliance on suggestion that characterize the theatre also characterize this movie...
...struggle between dignity and simple usage was not merely a matter of Europeans v. Americans. Author Stewart shows clearly that when Congress and state legislatures took a hand in place-naming they usually gave free rein to the politician's love of rolling syllables (Maine is the only one-syllable state name in the Union). With profound respect for a great democrat, Congress named three tributaries of the Jefferson River Philosophy, Wisdom and Philanthropy - only to find the people of the region stubbornly continuing to call them what they always had: Willow Creek, Big Hole and Stinking Water...
Extraordinarily responsive to alcohol, Gould once gave gin its free rein, but now he's on the wagon. He claims he'll stay away from hard liquor until his ninetieth birthday; "then I'm going to get drunk and stay that way, even if it kills me." But the way things look now, nicotine may get him before alcohol...