Word: reined
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...would be interested to know whether you feel this is working towards real democracy, in the recognized sense of the word, or if you think you will have to hold a tight rein on the country for some time to come...
...precariously in the orbit of the University, the state capitol and downtown Madison. Three months ago, a small group of Mifflanders occupied four homes, paid no rent and refused to get out; later they declared the houses community property. They are still there, amid mounting controversy. TIME Correspondent Rich Rein toured the rhetorical barricades last week and reported...
...call peace-keeping force from 11,000 to 25,000 men. But the organization's relative impotence in the major East-West confrontations is all but certain to continue, if only because the U.N. was never designed to be a world government, much less one strong enough to rein in the great powers. The wry rule of thumb posed by Philippines Foreign Minister Carlos Romulo years ago still holds: "When there is an issue between two small powers, the issue disappears. When there is an issue between a small power and a big power, the small power disappears. When...
Three commission members, aligned themselves with Nixon's position. In a minority report, they called the findings of the Commission a "Magna Carta for the pornographer," and said, "the commission is presumptuously recommending that the United States follow Denmark's lead in giving pornography free rein...
...observed that John Barbirolli and Goerge Szell were polar opposites. While Barbirolli was the actual successor of Toscanini in the New York post, Szell was, in a very real sense, his spiritual successor. Toscanini and Szell were cut from the same cloth: men of precision who held tight rein over their orchestras and insisted on perfection in their performers. Like Barbirolli, Szell was a distinguished soloist in his own right. To a far greater degree than Barbirolli, he pursued his career as an instrumentalist all his life, and at his death was a fine concert pianist...