Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bald Fritz Sauckel had preserved an air of head-shaking detachment from his fellow criminals. But when a document was introduced showing that even Rosenberg had asked Sauckel to use restraint in his treatment of the slaves, he bowed his bullet head...
...bride, sitting with clasped hands and downcast eyes in front of a loosely hung curtain, "is a healthy, blowsy heifer, with an expression of self-restraint and self-satisfaction which is not very attractive." The man grabbing pies off the tray looks too much like the bride to be the bridegroom. So does the one pouring beer into three-pint mugs. They are probably her brothers. Her father, nowhere to be seen, must be dead. The bride's mother, her face hidden, sits on her right. But the bridegroom's face could not be hidden: Bruegel wouldn...
...Bishop Oxnam and John Foster Dulles, after protesting the first use of the bomb and pleading that the U.S. "follow the ways of Christian statesmanship," wrote warmly after the Japanese surrender of the American "capacity for self-restraint" and of the impressive "practical demonstration of the possibility of atomic energy bringing...
...Grecian coast, after one of them dies of the plague, is a strange crew, including a Greek general (Boris Karloff), a sinister peasant woman (Helene Thimig), a genteel Englishman (Alan Napier), his sickly wife (Katherine Emery), their full-blown servant girl (Ellen Drew). For a while, with deliberate restraint, the movie is content to trail red herrings, tune up its infernal machinery and suggest perhaps a few too many moral and psychological implications. Tensions grow as the characters develop a pervasive fear of death...
...rescue went Loyal Oppositionist Winston Churchill. He seconded the plea for no debate-"the utmost restraint must be exercised ... in all comments on the American situation at this time." Then Winston Churchill proceeded to comment: "I cannot believe that this is the last word of the United States. I cannot believe that so great a country . . . would proceed in such a rough and harsh manner...