Word: restraining
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...last spring: the Development and Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction. For their term papers, students must assess the potential damage of an atomic, biological or chemical attack--and offer solutions. "I had students e-mailing airport and nuclear-power-plant officials," says Professor Jeff Lewis. "I had to restrain their enthusiasm...
Harvard’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet-in-Residence is one of the most stellar attractions the University counts among its rich wellspring of resources. The 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature doesn’t restrain himself to the poetry for which he won the prize; Heaney counts a definitive translation of Beowulf, over ten collections of radiant verse and several collections of critical essays among his impressively voluminous works...
Police radio reports indicated police used tear gas to restrain crowds at the Landmark Center in Boston...
...Fitzpatrick and Mazza had to fill Dawson’s void, the defense’s imperative was to control 230-lb. backfield bruiser Andre Hardaway. Harvard struggled to restrain Hardaway throughout the first half, as the Big Red tailback sliced through the Crimson line 19 times for 114 yards in the first two quarters alone. The second half told a different story, however, as Hardaway ran for only 25 more yards on eight carries. The Big Red’s stalwart workhorse also snagged two passes for 21 yards and returned four kickoffs for a total of 104 yards...
...Fitzpatrick and Mazza had to fill Dawson’s void, the defense’s imperative was to control 230-lb. backfield bruiser Andre Hardaway. Harvard struggled to restrain Hardaway throughout the first half, as the Big Red tailback sliced through the Crimson line 19 times for 114 yards in the first two quarters alone. The second half told a different story, however, as Hardaway ran for only 25 more yards on eight carries. The Big Red’s stalwart workhorse also snagged two passes for 21 yards and returned four kickoffs for a total of 104 yards...