Word: rein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Continue to keep a tight rein on the cost of living by preventing general increases particularly in rent and the prices of food and clothes...
After this blood bath Dictator Ubico met little serious opposition, although he often refreshed his people's memory by preventive drizzles of blood. An efficient administrator, he kept tight rein. Plots melted before his pervasive spies, his alert police under shrewd, ruthless Roderico Anzueto. No Guatemalan felt free from secret observation. Today, even Cabinet ministers are under close surveillance...
...March 1944, Colt stockholders got another kind of shock. For the first time in 27 years, Colt paid no dividend. On April 20 came shock No. 2. Up to board chairman went Colt's ailing president, Samuel M. Stone, who had driven Colt with a tight rein for 22 years. To the presidency came Graham H. Anthony, 52, a veteran Colt director...
...menstrual disorders. After injections of pregnant-mare serum (a blood extract rich in pituitary hormone), all but three of them developed clear skins, normal menses. Doctors are leary of sex-hormone treatment for acne-it has been "disappointing" in the past -but Drs. Charles Howard Birnberg and Charles Robert Rein of New York City believe that pregnant mare's serum is effective for this type of acne in women. They make no mention of men with acne...
...tall, slim, 26-year-old Captain Charlton, onetime London Daily Sketch-man, Monty gave free rein and backed him up when the War Office was howling for the suppression of the paper, and even Winston Churchill was making known his disapproval...