Word: unrestraint
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During the 1970s, creditors like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank were flush with “petrol dollars,” profits generated by the OPEC oil monopoly. In a display of remarkable unrestraint, these creditors pushed questionable loans on developing countries. Prominent among the loan recipients were a cast of unscrupulous dictators who used the easy cash to pad their Swiss bank accounts and repress their own citizens. Selfless leaders like Mubutu of Zaire, Marcos of the Philippines, Suharto of Indonesia, and Idi Amin of Uganda may no longer be in power, but thanks...
...Ochlocracy is but the inchoate rococo of mob rule, bred on febrile emotions and unrestraint," said Wellesley-educated Mme. Chiang Kai-shek to Canada's Parliament. She also spoke of Germany's "immane dictatorship...
...things which impressed the whole group was the total absence of any propaganda of any sort, or of any attempt to show only the most favorable aspects of France. There was an absolute freedom and unrestraint of the type which should characterize any real effort at good will between the youth of two nations. Moreover, not only were the ancient glories of France displayed to the visitors but an intimate view was also given of the modern France. There was a visit to the Manufacture de Sevres where the famous porcelain wares are turned out; a tour...
...anything is needed to demonstrate the respect with which governments hold the power of opinion in international affairs, the array of evidence in this book should suffice. The material is here, although it is presented with all the unrestraint of journalistic sensationalism, and without that balanced judgment and perspective so badly needed in a book of this sort. Mr. Riegel sets out to "view with alarm" the world-wide battle of nationalist propaganda and indeed, few will deny that it is a story lending itself to sensational treatment. It is a story that should be widely publicized...
...iron men by bundling the little girls in heavy uniforms, marching them in columns up & down long winding stairs, starving, shadowing, suppressing them. At night they weep for loneliness; they exploit any teacher's kindness into a schoolgirl "crush"; on a rare party they go half-mad with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers to the platform and announces that she loves a particular teacher, that the Fraulein (Dorothea Wieck) has given her a chemise. Of this the principal makes such a scandal that the child goes...