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Later L.B.J. sent him to the eastern Mediterranean to head off a war between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus, then to Seoul to restrain President Park Chung Hee from retaliating against North Korea for a series of attacks against the South. In the spring of 1968, he helped keep the lid on Washington when the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. touched off racial conflict...
...they don't know who they're dealing with. Instead of passively standing by as they rough up a Black activist, a previously withdrawn Sweetback beats the white cops to death--using the very handcuffs that restrain...
Perhaps one step toward more civility and community would be a modification of the famous injunction in Henry VI: First, let's restrain -- not kill -- all the lawyers. Then add a second proposal that Shakespeare never had to think of: Let's gag all the crybabies. Better yet, let them gag themselves...
...slices of chicken, in an amber-coloured sauce; a salad of whitened green that gleamed; creamy-coloured cheese; the deep red of port; colours so intense and shades so subtle. I slipped softly into the world of the senses. A body that could stretch out fully to imprison, release, restrain or devour its prey, could now also eat food the way food should be eaten...
...last week, United and American will be allowed to go ahead with their plans. American will then control 17% of the transatlantic market. United will have 14%, while BA has only 11%. United also wins the right to fly to several European cities from London. U.S. officials agreed to restrain the two carriers at first, limiting them this year to the number of flights to London previously approved for Pan Am and TWA. In another concession, Washington will allow a second British carrier, most likely Virgin Atlantic Airways, to fly from Heathrow to the U.S. Virgin reacted to this news...