Word: restraining
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...breakfast with him in 1969. He was talking about the bad advice he got about halting the bombing in Viet Nam. He said that Averell Harriman came to him at least twelve times, and said that if we'd stop the bombing, the Russians would use their influence to restrain the North Vietnamese. Johnson said, 'I did it twelve times, and not a one of them did a damn bit of good. Ike was different,' he said. 'The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear...
...weekend that the Sino-U.S. relationship will be an increasingly important - and perilous - dimension of Washington's foreign policy in years to come. The visit highlighted new tensions over Taiwan, mounting U.S. concern over China's efforts to modernize its military and impatience over its diplomatic efforts to restrain North Korea's nuclear program - and, of course, the Bush administration's promotion of democracy. ?China must embrace some form of open representative government if it is to reap the benefits and meet the challenges of a globalizing world,? Rice said bluntly, although Chinese foreign policy types might conclude that...
...came to her home to warn the McGinley family off attending court or drawing attention to the case. The warning went unheeded. At one court proceeding in 2003, so many of the McGinley clan charged the dock that police called for reinforcements, grabbed riot shields and used batons to restrain them. Fisher was convicted on a reduced charge of manslaughter and sentenced to three years in prison last month. He denies being an I.R.A...
...self-proclaimed love letter about the selfless, sweet man her little brother has become. Sweet and sensitive? Thoughts of Matt’s dim wit and Harvard-standard ambitions were fast being replaced by dreams of romantic candlelit dinners followed by repeated viewings of Clueless. But I tried to restrain myself: keep it professional, I thought...
...disturbed prisoners at Abu Ghraib was a man--probably psychotic, according to a medical staff member--who habitually coated his body in fecal matter and repeatedly tried to harm himself--for instance, by banging his head against cell walls. At one point, Auch says, medics asked his advice on restraining the prisoner, reporting that they had used a helmet to protect his head and improvised padded gloves and plastic handcuffs to secure his arms. The medics wanted to know whether using a tether would be appropriate, and Auch recalls that he gave his assent, saying, "The priority is to safeguard...