Word: straightjacketed
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...American citizen and the rights of a government employe in a security agency." To make the teaching profession seem to bear a vital relationship to government security would be a small task for experienced red-baiters. If it is to be effective, opposition to the Barnes bill must straightjacket this sort of political sleight-of-hand...
...Young Turks. But the slaps at "Uncle Freddie" Delano and Elmer Davis were small acts in a big show. On OPA's request for $177,000,000, the House first cut the appropriation by 26%, then wrote in a series of straightjacket amendments. Most drastic: 1) No one without at least five years' experience in business, except Boss Prentiss Brown, shall be employed in OPA policy-making jobs; 2) no OPA funds may be used to pay any employe having anything to do with administration of subsidies...
...Fergus Falls, Minn., one Maurice Larson while being shown through an insane asylum became violent, was put in a straightjacket, kept there...
Mysterious Smith apparently had no difficulty in getting out of a straightjacket inside of a roped coffin...
...intellectual" writhing in a straightjacket...