Word: restricters
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...council passed a proposal which would restrict individual students to purchases of ten tickets (two to each bursar's card) to each football game. This, the council hopes, will eliminate the sale of tickets in large blocks of hundreds of seats...
...Gave the Coast Guard sweeping authority to search vessels, restrict the waterfront and otherwise safeguard U.S. ports because "the security of the United States is endangered by reason of subversive activity...
Ireland's oppressed tenant farmers took eagerly to the "lazybed" method of potato culture by which the tubers were simply laid on the ground, covered with earth and left to grow by themselves. Many Irishmen were happy enough to restrict their diet to these easily grown roots and to spend their free time lying on hillsides thinking dark thoughts on the British and nipping poteen, which, as any schoolboy knows, is made from a potato mash. By the end of the 19th Century, said Dr. Salaman, the average Irishman was eating 14 Ibs. of spuds a day, his wife...
...press chronicles you as plodding about the country seeking someone to whom you can give a 'no-strike pledge.' I am sure that you will pardon me when I suggest that the Mineworkers are not yet ready for you to sell them down the river. Restrict your pledges to your own outfit. We do our own no-striking...
Lectures or Actions? There was a clamor of voices saying different things. Senators like Robert Taft, always cautious about increasing the powers of the President, argued that he did not now need the authority to allocate and restrict and might never need them. Harry Truman himself asked for moderate powers, seemed to hope that by lecturing capital, labor and consumers, he could get by. Men like Bernard Baruch argued that the longer the grant of full powers was postponed, the harder it would be to invoke controls when they were needed...