Word: restrained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berman's British-American Repertory Company (BARC), on the other hand, acts a bit self-conscious throughout the play, and exaggerates the caricaturing native to the script. To be fair, some of the actors in the company restrain themselves, but they only look-incongruous among their mugging colleagues...
...TAKES STRONG STEPS TO RESTRAIN INFLATION, SHIFTS MONETARY TACTIC --Wall Street Journal, October...
...Governor Jerry Brown, who was spending a day campaigning in the Granite State. Brown had originally intended to stay four days, but had to rush back home to keep his rambunctious Republican Lieutenant Governor, Mike Curb, from making any more trouble in the statehouse. (Brown has filed suit to restrain Curb from contravening his own policies when Brown is away.) Brown's speech won applause. Said he: "The Government is spending millions to move missiles around Utah. I think we could use that money to move people." But Dudley W. Dudley, the blond who heads the Kennedy drive...
Krauss also said he hoped to make the administration behind the design codes more flexible. He said that these codes should reflect citizen input as well as the designer's and should serve as guidelines to help the designer, not restrain...
...treaty and the Soviets and still end up voting for the treaty. Gromyko then responded with rare whimsy: "If I should ever get the urge after reading some hotheaded statement made in the United States to reach for a pencil and paper, I will use my other hand to restrain the first one. If I should ever be tempted to dictate a sharp response into a tape recorder, I will instruct my staff to make sure the tape recorder breaks down. If I should ever feel the urge to call in a stenographer to dictate a sharp response, I will...