Word: restricted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many of our agricultural products such as apples, citrus fruits, cotton, and tobacco depend heavily on overseas markets. The obvious step for other countries to take in meeting the United States threat to restrict their products is to impose counter-restrictions in retaliation...On balance, American agriculture will suffer from this provision...
...after all the mourners had gone, a cemetery official asked a strange question: "Was that boy an Indian?" While the coffin still rested above the grave, he explained that the cemetery articles of incorporation restrict it to "members of the Caucasian race." The body was taken back to the mortuary...
Classical Drill. Says Tristano: "Our harmonies are strongly impressionistic. Melodically, I've tried to go beyond bop, which adheres largely to the given harmonic structure; we don't restrict ourselves to the chord when we play melody. Our rhythms are superimposed one on the other. Sometimes I play three different rhythms at once, while the other boys are each playing separate ones." The main idea: every man for himself...
Swiss posters aim to please the man in the street, not just persuade him. Recognizing that posters are a public art form as well as an advertising medium the Swiss limit them to reasonable size (35 by 50 inches), restrict their display to appropriate spots, and require that they be changed every fortnight. In addition, the government encourages poster artists with an annual competition...
Most determined opponents of German rearmament are the French, who originally wanted to restrict German "combat teams" in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to 5,000 men, bar Germans from heavy artillery or tactical aviation. The German reply was that they would never fight under such conditions; they demanded instead an independent German army serving under NATO of around 250,000 men, with artillery and air units manned by Germans...