Word: restrainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumbled Representative John E. Moss: "A very unique thing about this industry -all this brotherly love-people just cannot restrain themselves from giving away their wealth...
...antelopes meant meat to them. Skins could be sold to white trophy hunters, and tribal Africans pay high prices for elephants' sexual organs for use in fertility rites. Matta had only nine men to protect an area twice the size of Long Island. He begged the chiefs to restrain the poachers. That failing, he appealed to his own French superiors in Abidjan for more money to hire more guards. They refused on political grounds: in modern Africa, the breech-clouted poacher may well be a duly registered voter. Whatever the provocation, the authorities warned, Matta must do nothing...
...chartered streetcars. Meetings were a mad mélange of inflammatory speeches, door-slamming walkouts, rival press conferences and angry communiqués as 60 Congolese parties and innumerable tribal chiefs jockeyed for position in the race to lead the vast new nation-to-be. One delegate tried to restrain the others by quoting an old tribal saying: "He who tries to eat before the others burns himself." Chief rival for the power of the mercurial Kasavubu is Patrice Lumumba, 33, onetime postal clerk in Stanleyville who served six months in jail in 1958 for embezzling $2,400 in postal...
...Presidium. Nehru had worked hard to stir up a welcome that would not compare too unfavorably with Ike's great reception, but Voroshilov's welcome was plainly not so spontaneous. Reason for Nehru's solicitude: he regards Russia as on his side in helping to restrain Peking's ambitions...