Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is a rehearsal," announced the assistant manager, "and at rehearsals there are no interruptions, no applause. You must imagine yourselves behind a glass wall or curtain. Of course, I do not see how you can restrain yourselves for Mr. Munch and Mr. Menuhin...
...monopoly, had rejected advertising "solely ... to force these advertisers not to [use] an available mode of communication." Judge Freed found the Horvitz brothers, Business Manager D. P. Self, Editor Frank Maloy and the Journal guilty of a civil violation of the Sherman Act. In announcing that he would restrain the from rejecting advertising for such reasons, the judge added that this would in no way affect its "operations . . as an organ of opinion." The Jour planned to appeal the decision...
...small table and urged to knock a ping-pong ball back & forth between them (see cut). When the ball was missed, it fell into a trough and released some grain for the opponent. Pigeons that played this game quickly caught the competitive spirit: until Dr. Skinner decided to restrain them with wire shields, a loser sometimes tried to fly over the table and murder his victorious opponent...
...students who were questioned by the press only added to the confusion. Some said their teachers had encouraged them; others said that it was all their own idea. Meanwhile the High School Teachers Association urged its members to "restrain pupils." The A.F.L. Teachers Guild hoped that students would postpone demonstrations until "after school hours...
...fact: if the Red army moved 200 miles from the Western end of Russia's zone of Germany to the French border, the Kremlin would have doubled its present industrial potential for supporting war. If, in terms of high-school algebra, it now takes x Western force to restrain Russia, it will take 2X Western force when the Russians have reached the Rhine...