Word: restrictively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Speaking at a meeting of Council nominees from the Class of 1952, Panzer issued the following statement of aims: "If elected to the Student Council, I will do my utmost to abolish the Council and will do everything in my power to restrict its sphere of influence while I am carrying out my objective...
...basis of the University's guarantee of academic freedom for its Faculty, is rooted in the belief that it is administratively easier to leave people unregulated than to try to regulate, and by regulating assume responsibility for all their activities. Thus there is no attempt at Harvard to restrict the utterances and affiliations of Faculty members. If anyone complains to the University about the activities of a Faculty member, the University simply points out that it is not supervising the Faculty and hence any complaints must be taken directly to the Faculty member in question. In the past, this same...