Word: rein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naguib has managed to rein in the hot-bloods, keep the opposing factions pulling together. But a serious feud in the Officers Committee could stop Egypt's revolution in its tracks...
Porter was given a job-not as an office boy, but as a sort of roving staff member with free rein to probe into the nooks & crannies of TIME'S editorial, business and production departments, to join story conferences, to read over the writers' shoulders and to sit in on the selection of pictures...
...Palestine Scandal. The indictment was overdrawn but not incorrect. Farouk, who could have been an uncommonly intelligent and able King (and occasionally was), turned out in the main to be an uncommonly gross and unrestrained one. He gave free rein to all his appetites-from women to power, and treated his Premiers as he did his girl friends, changing them constantly (five Premiers in one six-month period). After the birth of his only son he made a valiant effort to straighten up, and brought in honest Premier Hilary Pasha to purge the corruption that was endangering the government...
...effect, advocating the further extension of that philosophy which now dominates the public school system, namely: materialist secularism. It is ironic indeed that the CRIMSON should be concerned lest other philosophies intrude into a system of public education in which one philosophy, the same secularism, already has free rein. Is not this a limitation of freedom...
...great shakes. His masters at Barcelona's School of Architecture labeled him a mediocre student. His first professional work, a group of Barcelona workers' cottages, was dull and uninspired. But when a rich Barcelona cotton merchant offered him patronage, Gaudi began to give his lively imagination free rein...