Word: restrained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little country that is trying the difficult and perhaps impossible task of combining Communism with freedom, is continuing to stir up resentment and alarm in its Communist neighbors. Russia and the more orthodox Communist states of Eastern Europe, in turn, are putting enormous pressure on the Czechoslovaks to restrain their liberating zeal. It is a conflict that could lead to tragedy...
...American Automobile Association campaign to eliminate all traffic laws, because they do not stop people from speeding and driving through red lights. And then I'd like to see some interested group work to eliminate laws against rape. There are always some killjoys in society trying to restrain the American sportsman...
Last night, members of the Coalition came to the steps of Fayeweather and demanded a chance to "get even" with the demonstrators inside. "Three years of the administration giving in to SDS is a long time to restrain ourselves," one said...
...with inflammatory stories and editorials. Last October the students once again took to the streets to protest Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's trip to Viet Nam. But if history repeated itself, the press did not. It reported the rioting with obvious distress and admonished the students to restrain themselves. Said Asahi, Japan's biggest daily: "The students have forgotten that a social movement will not get on the right track unless it is accepted by public opinion. This has resulted in excessive actions and in their becoming more and more isolated...
Although the facts may be debated, the issues are clear enough. Cambridge officials have attempted to restrain future issues of Avatar on the basis of a lower court decision which found one past issue obscene. A decision which affects a single issue does not apply to a whole string of future issues, and in applying one decision to several issues the officials have violated Avatar's constitutional rights. The Boston decision applies only to the eleventh issue; the twelfth and thirteenth issues of Avatar have not been declared obscene by any court...