Word: restrainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first date as a leader, recorded on Roost in 1947, kicking off with a sprung version of I'll Remember April that betrays none of Powell's troubles. It bursts with giddy invention that could have tipped the song into anarchy if Powell hadn't been able to restrain his own abandon. He was so good and so graceful, he could realize his inspirations with tremendously controlled dexterity. The earliest of the Verve recordings are from 1949, and they end with a 1955 session in which Powell, his bass player and drummer close out with a heavyweight combination: Gillespie...
...often the case, the elements that make John Ford's "My Darling Clementine" a brilliant piece of film making also restrain the film from being on par with his greatest westerns, "Stagecoach" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence." Nevertheless, it would be foolish for any film lover to miss the screenings of "My Darling Clementine" at the Harvard Film Archive...
...tried so hard to be generous, just as every Independence Day I restrain myself from playing with sparkle too close to Uncle Mort's suspiciously fluffy hair. I just could never bring myself to laugh as hard as everyone else. They looked like they were having such a good time...
...need for some serious policing of the streets where local forces have been told to hang back. On Thursday former New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly took charge of the 1,000-strong international monitoring force in Puerto Rico, which the U.S. is sending to Haiti to restrain and retrain local authorities: 300 monitors were to arrive by the weekend. But it will be months before the new Haitian police can be counted on to enforce civic order fairly. In the meantime, the U.S. wants to make clear that it will not tolerate mob violence, but is uncertain...
Hamad ran up to them, shouting, "This man is destroying my property! Arrest him!" The settler answered angrily, "If you don't like it, leave this country!" He then punched Hamad in the chest. Neither of the soldiers made a move to restrain the settler. Hamad's wife Raeda approached, and the settler struck her in the chest. Again the soldiers did not react. By then, about 25 neighbors had gathered and were beginning to seethe. The soldiers pointed guns at the crowd to subdue them...