Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important thing at stake was whether the chief executive is subject to the rule of law," he reminisces, supping into tutorial tones. "Or to put the point a little differently, whether our Constitution is an operative restraint on our President or whether, if he chooses to disobey, he has the power...
Authorities vowed to keep the rallies under strict but peaceful control. As things turned out, the spectacle was impressive, though the total turnout was considerably smaller than the organizers had expected. Both police and protesters acted with restraint, and the whole affair at times took on the air of a nationwide picnic. In Bonn, the nation's capital and the main location of the weekend's activity, some 350,000 people streamed through the streets holding banners and here and there bobbing papier-mâché caricatures of President Ronald Reagan. Armbanded marshals kept the river...
...Wolfe's. The Right Stuff says "by golly" a lot, as in, "by golly, my kids are behind me 100 percent." Even after the Russians move ahead in the space race. Glenn still favors rather tame condemnations, as in, "darned Russians." Fellow astronaut Gus Grissom, not given to such restraint in speech, turns to Glenn and adds, "Fucking A," Glenn then pauses, and so does the movie, awaiting a response that will characterize not only The Right Stuffs John Glenn but also The Right Stuff itself. His earlier moralistic preaching forgotten. Glenn faces the others and exclaims, "That's right...
...aging alumni putatively beneficiaries of the Dean's intrusion into the domain of free expression--and as one who two decades ago played in Schneider's Band and formulated a show routine or two, when not otherwise pulling oars--let me urge the Dean's restraint on prior restraint...
...practice restraint. We did not knowingly once spelt out the F word in four years of intercollegiate performance. Phallic symbols did not appear with regularity or rigidity (due mainly to the Brand's inability to perform any evolution with the requisite precision). Thus the instant reports of "puke" [I believe "barf" was once the word of choice] and commentary on Flight 007 or Marines in Lebanon hardly offend our generation...