Word: curtailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration and both parties should start the task of explaining to most Americans that recognition of Red China is neither cowardly, immoral, nor an approval of Mao's regime, but rather an advantage in dealing directly with a force the U.S. wishes to curtail in power and size. At this point we can salvage little, but our present policy can very well lose us everything--including our allies and a precarious peace...
...Caltech needed a new head for its now famous Division of Biology. Professor Morgan had retired. Beadle was tapped for the job and accepted, knowing well that he would have to curtail, perhaps abandon, his personal research. Some of his friends felt that a great scientist was being wasted on a routine administrative job, and there was a precedent for their fears in the history of genetics. Mendel himself did nothing of note after he was made abbot...
...general counsel for the Federal Power Commission, as the $1.8 billion-a-year natural gas pipeline industry began to feel the impact of a precedent-setting court decision. Handed down recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the little publicized ruling would i) greatly curtail FPC's authority to control interstate natural gas prices, and 2) give every major gas consumer the power to block a rate increase...
...Student Council will be forced to curtail some of its activities unless it receives the remainder of its pledge money, Council President Larry Johnson '58 reported yesterday...
Mindful of the Big Ten's code of football purity and eager to show that service with Coach Duffy Daugherty's undefeated assassins does not curtail a young scholar's other activities, Michigan State's athletic department posed hefty (6 ft., 200 Ib.) sophomore Guard Russ Kelly, 25, with his four major courses: Nick, 7, Kurt, 6, Marilyn, 4, and Terry...