Word: straitjacket
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...fact, is one of the things that makes other Arab states wary of being too closely embraced by Nasser. Egypt, like China, is always threatening to spill over its borders into the relatively empty land of its neighbors. Individualistic Arabs, as well, are nervously concerned about disappearing into the straitjacket of Nasser's one-man rule...
...that they are pouring their lives down the hatch. He runs through five jobs in four years before he crawls on the wagon and drags her on it too. But they soon fall off, and he keeps falling until he hits bottom-one day he wakes up in a straitjacket. The minute he gets out of it he joins Alcoholics Anonymous, but she goes right on drinking. In horror he understands that the cure will be almost worse than the disease, that in order to give up the booze he will have to give up his wife...
Though Tennessee's limelighting Senator Estes Kefauver won little support in Congress for his proposals to put the pharmaceutical industry in a straitjacket, he was indisputably right when he said: "Few bills have had so varied a legislative history." In the end. it was not Kefauver's three-year investigation of the drug industry that put the reform legislation over, but the national shock over the thalidomide disaster (TIME. Aug. 10) and panic over the possibility that "it might happen here...
...England intellectual's self-assurance and the Thoreauesque tradition of rebellious individualism. Just as Cummings began writing verse, Ezra Pound and the Imagists had turned old poetic practice upside down. Cummings was quick to follow them in tossing out high-flown poetic rhetoric and shucking off the straitjacket of traditional verse forms. Above all, the Imagist doctrine of quick impact was made for Cummings. Explaining his own techniques, he said: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk. viz.: 'Would you hit a woman with a baby...
...JOHN C. SATTERFIELD, outgoing A.B.A. president, criticized the U.S. Supreme Court for decisions that expose "the individual to a much wider degree of judicial supervision and governmental regulation than has been the case in the past . . . There is real danger that the states will soon be placed in a straitjacket of federal conformity extending far beyond the prohibitions placed by the states in the Bill of Rights against actions by the central Government ... It would seem that practically the only area remaining even partially free from some kind of regulation by the central Government is that of purely private relations...