Word: restrains
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...lances of chivalry are being put away. Gunpowder sits where the judges were. History is preparing a new sort of world, Durward: cruel and political, thoughtful, violent. Louis XI of France is its symbol. If you're to match him, my Scottish cavalier, you may have to restrain your more glorious impulses." Since glory is box office, Taylor is in trouble. Things come to a head one night when "The Spider King" (Robert Morley), as history knows him, sits spinning his political web. "We are about to embark on a foul venture," he murmurs to a cackling familiar. "Foul...
...Justices strongly disapprove. . . for more than 15 years the Supreme Court has consistently refused to employ the due-process clause (of the 14th Amendment) to invalidate novel and questionable state economic regulations." But he noted the court has been quicker to interfere "when the impact of government is to restrain the individual in the expression of his thoughts or beliefs or to violate the integrity of his personality...
...Istanbul headlines. Soon thousands of angry Turks were surging through the streets, bent on destroying stores run by Istanbul's Greek-speaking minority. The rioters shattered shop windows, tore down steel shutters, littered the pavement with heaps of merchandise, and beat up policemen who tried to restrain them. Shouting "Cyprus is Turkish," rioters set fire to buildings and Greek Orthodox churches, while others seized a Cadillac belonging to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras (a gift from Cinemogul Spyros Skouras) and shoved it into the Golden Horn's muddy waters...
Last week the court drew the line itself. Unanimously, the court struck down the executive claim to plenary powers. "The Government may not arbitrarily restrain the liberty of a citizen to travel," said the decision, written by Circuit Judge Charles Fahy, onetime U.S. Solicitor General. "Discretionary power does not carry with it the right of its arbitrary exercise...
...rosy optimism, Auboin raised a flag of warning. Said he: "In most countries all the available manpower is by now fully employed, and, for this reason alone, it is unlikely that the recent rate of expansion can be maintained all along the line." (Britain has already tightened credit to restrain its boom.) To consolidate Europe's gains, each country must watch its national budget, keep a check on inflation, remove restrictions against international trade and currency exchange. Said Auboin: "There is no reason for complacency." Prosperity "will remain precariously based until the principal currencies of the world are again...