Word: restrained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must restrain ourselves and our hotheaded brothers today. If we do not, there will be no union after the war. Restrictive legislation, worse than anything on the books, will be enacted...
...days when paunchy Thurman Arnold breezily fired anti-trust suits, like howitzer shells, at U.S. corporations, he reserved a supporting machine-gun drumfire for corporate patent practices. His tracers indicated that many a U.S. corporation used patents to restrain trade, i.e., by mass research to make minor patentable improvements, thereby extending original patents far beyond their 17-year limits. Before Arnold could bring his heavy guns to bear, he was upped to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Many a U.S. businessman relaxed. But from his new vantage point, Justice Arnold last week shook them with another howitzer blast...
Soldiers who like duck eggs had better restrain their appetites when they invade Europe or the Dutch East Indies. Duck eggs often contain a variety of Salmonella -bacteria which cause paratyphoid fevers and intestinal disorders...
...enterprise," but for "free, private, competitive enterprise . . . the absence of all uncontrolled monopoly and special privilege wherever they may have been found in the past." Prior to this unmistakably official statement, free enterprise could as well as not have been interpreted-and was, by some N.A.Magnates-as freedom to restrain one's competitors in the interests of an "orderly" market...
...three great Allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain and have no thought of territorial expansion...