Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stood on the curb, caught on the knife edge between two unhappy and possibly hopeless worlds. Behind me was a bank window, offering joyless, useless prizes for opening an account. Across the street were the kids, ramming their way into the mad jumble of Bryant Park. Later, the militants-the YAWFs, the Progressive Labor S.D.S. wing and others-fought their way onto the platform and kept off speakers they did not approve of. If that was the future, it, too, would be a joyless prize...
...appearance of that defensive system, designed to knock out enemy missiles before they reach their targets, that prompted the development of multiple warheads. MIRVed missiles, which the U.S. plans to start deploying in June, increase the chance of penetrating an enemy ABM shield. Thus, nothing would curb each side's need for MIRVs as much as an agreement that limits ABMs. The Soviet Union presently leads in the deployment of ABMs, though few experts consider its 64-silo Galosh system around Moscow a genuine threat to U.S. retaliatory power. The Russians acknowledged during the preliminary negotiations that ABMs, though...
What can be done to curb the wave of kidnapings? As it is, diplomats are in danger of being thrust back into their ancient role as hostages who ensured friendships and peace. Von Spreti's murder means that no diplomat will henceforth be exchangeable. Said one U.S. official in Latin America, "After the killing of a German ambassador, Americans could never demand special treatment. We are no longer exchangeable...
America, too, has its share of bread and cirouses. As welfare and other federal handouts help curb the daily appetites of ten million hungry people, most of the American public is well feasted on a myriad variety of public spectacles that range from television and Thanksgiving to baseball and Congress...
...work suspension snuffed out the Monday morning editions of all four major papers that are hostile to the government. In addition, the government's insistence that newspapers provide space on the editorial page for reporters to "freely express their ideas under their signatures" was actually an attempt to curb antigovernment editorials...