Word: restrainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four major powers pitched in together to head off disaster-but stopped short of actually recommending such a move. Moscow, although concerned by the crisis, declined to align itself with the West and suggested disingenuously that the real answer would be for the U.S. and Britain to restrain Israel, which it called the aggressor...
...about as good as a trial judge can.be." Another rights lawyer calls Johnson "entirely fair. You can never tell whether he's going to rule for you or against you." Even lawyers on the other side of the civil rights fence cannot restrain themselves. Adds...
...tennis court. The father breaks the news to his wife by bringing the son home for a visit. The wife (Irene Papas) is a moody, olive-dark, childless woman of 36 who has been pacing her life like a tiger in a cage of desire. Unable to restrain herself, she kisses the youth. When he spurns her ("Get yourself another boy") she takes despairing revenge in suicide. The boy is later killed in a car crash...
...drastic measures will cut consumption and restrain an economy that has been living beyond its means, thus helping to stabilize the pound. Or so the government hopes. On the other hand, there may be dangerous side effects. British auto sales abroad are the country's biggest earner of foreign exchange, brought home $2.2 billion last year. Because of the sharp drop in sales at home, British automakers may well have to raise their export prices to uncompetitive levels or sell their cars abroad at a loss. In any case, the leading exporter, British Ford, expects that this year Britain...
...investment, too much government spending, rising consumer appetites. And all of the coun tries are looking to monetary policies alone for avoiding the inflationary im pact." So said Federal Reserve Board Member Dewey Daane last week, focusing on the fact that the U.S., among other countries, has sought to restrain its economic exuberance by making money costlier and scarcer than at any other time in the 1960s...