Word: restrained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mutual's General Manager Fred Weber denounced this as an attempt to "coerce, influence or restrain the free choice of action" of Mutual's affiliates. Mutual President Wilbert E. Macfarlane pled lengthily for ratification, while ASCAP officials lurked hopefully near by. Neville Miller's pleas and the opposition of John Shepard III, bulky, argumentative president of New England's Yankee and Colonial networks whose stations pipe in many a big-chain program, deadlocked the voters...
...since his marriage last summer he has been limited to just $100 a month in living expenses since 1930, blind. British-born Radio Pianist Alec Templeton (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera} sued his parents for an accounting of his $200,000 earnings, and to restrain them from using any power of attorney he may have signed "without knowing what the paper...
...Ministers, including gaudy Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, had donned officers' uniforms and joined the nation's desperate fighting forces. But the catch in this bit of cheer was that Old War Horse Benito ("war is the normal state of the people") Mussolini now had nobody to restrain...
These words, I realize, can readily be twisted into a charge that an attempt is being made to restrict, restrain, crib cabin and confine the legislative body in the interest of the executive. I pause therefore to say with all possible emphasis that this is a suggestion for broadening and strengthening the powers of the legislative body, and making it an even more important factor in national organization. Legislative bodies are not strong in detail but in general principle; they are most competent not in the minutiae of government but in the determination of the general directives of government action...
Concerning the hungry solicitors who lurk outside Mem Hall, Hooper's report says, "The solicitors tend to wax enthusiastic . . They should be firmly dealt with . . . It will generally be found necessary to threaten them with expulsion from time to time in order to restrain their clamor...