Word: restrains
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...outgoing." The first was shorthand for "We're being shot at." It was usually uttered while diving to the floor. The second meant we could relax, the bullets were headed in another direction. For some time to come, whenever I hear "incoming," I will probably have to restrain myself from falling flat and thinking suitable last thoughts...
...gradually I was able to relinquish my hold as I watched it disappear, leaving only vast, empty blackness. I felt no panic. I was resigned, but enormously sad. The sorrow increased as I looked into the blackness, and I was aware of tears flowing hard. Eventually I had to restrain myself from sheer bawling. I knew objectively that I was sitting there alive and well in a room in Upper Manhattan, but subjectively the sensation of death was as vivid as if I were looking into my own coffin...
When the student strike center petered out, Kathy faded away. Over the summer, the Waltham tax assessor tried to close down the center. Officially, Brandeis complied; unofficially the center continued its work in campus buildings for several weeks. Finally the students brought suit to restrain Brandeis from closing the center, and the name of Kathy Power was one of five signatures at the bottom of the petition. "When the suit came up she was back, probably because she was the most articulate of the bunch and they needed a good spokesman," another friend said...
...total pay received by non-Government workers recently has been rising only 7.2% a year, and major union contracts negotiated this year cover only a small minority of the U.S. labor force. Economists are also cheered by renewed growth in workers' output per man-hour, which tends to restrain the costs of production. After almost two years of little or no gain, productivity rose in the second quarter at an annual rate estimated by McCracken...
Haugh appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the ground that flag-desecration laws restrain a demonstrator's free speech and are thus unconstitutional. The court avoided that issue, which civil libertarians are now attempting to bring before the Supreme Court. Even so, the Pennsylvania tribunal has just reversed Haugh's conviction...