Word: straitjacket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assistant Navy Secretary Garrison Norton charged that a "dollar straitjacket" had "seriously hampered" missile research and development. As Norton told it, the Navy continually had to get approval from Comptroller McNeil to spend the skimpy R. & D. (research and development) funds voted by Congress. Asked the subcommittee's Counsel Edwin L. Weisl: What experts does McNeil have on his staff to advise him on R. & D. projects? Replied Norton: "None...
...Supreme Court, in Chief Justice Warren's opinion, held: "We do not now conceive of any circumstance wherein a state interest would justify infringement of rights in these fields." Wrote Warren in a 300-word aside on academic freedom: to "impose any straitjacket upon the intellectual leaders in our colleges and universities would imperil the future of our nation...
...test. Could he pass it? The dread of failing-failing to live up to his father's demands-threw him into a manic panic. One day in midseason, as the picture tells the story, Jim Piersall went berserk on the ball field and woke up in a straitjacket...
...sane, brother and sister wrote together (Tales from Shakespeare), and wined and dined almost every great literary figure of the day. When Mary showed signs of a fresh mad fit, they set off resolutely to the asylum together, walking arm in arm, weeping, and carrying Mary's straitjacket...
...first sight one may see little more than the sort of extravagance which, since Rimbaud, has haunted French poetry when it decides to break out of the straitjacket of French rationality. Private images seem to compete successfully with good sense. Yet the French is intoxicating to the ear −even to a merely Berlitz-trained ear. And while the English translations are often flat and sometimes incorrect, readers will find a good man in these pages, a man who wears the mask of language, not in order to hide his identity but to make plain his role in the tragedy...