Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they might have expected, Greg had suggested the two of them to do the actual work, but he had also suggested one of the senior professors to act as a kind of supervising chairman. However, it was his own considered opion that--at which point Hall, unable to restrain himself, asked, "You mean Brockberg?" "As a matter of fact," Briggs responded, "Greg did suggest Brockberg, but as I started to say, it seems much to be preferred that all seven of the full professors constitute themselves a committee to oversee the publication. They won't interfere with either...
...London with a new plan to bring back Archbishop Makarios, the bearded, 45-year-old Greek Orthodox Ethnarch of Cyprus and leader of the Greek Cypriot movement for enosis (union with Greece). This would give Foot a Greek Cypriot with whom to negotiate. And Makarios might be persuaded to restrain EOKA's gunmen, he argued. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, who had a hand in Makarios' expulsion from the island in 1956, did not agree. He admitted that Makarios would have to be allowed to return to Cyprus eventually-but not until the archbishop gave advance proof that...
...would justify his flight to Moscow last week in the same terms. The West has never figured out quite how to deal with him, having tried persuasion, flattery, gifts, threats, boycotts, bombs. Usually the West has asked of him what his ambition cannot allow. He was asked to restrain himself, which was asking him to be against his nature, against his basic elements of strength, against his repeated successes. And for a long time the West made the mistake of trusting his word...
...industry's companies-among them: Standard Oil (N.J.), Socony-Mobil, Shell Oil, Gulf, Tidewater, Phillips Petroleum-for allegedly using the Suez crisis 19 months ago to fix prices of crude oil and gasoline, accused them of violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring to restrain trade. It was the first large-scale criminal price-fixing case against the industry in more than 20 years, and one that oilmen promised to fight to the bitter...
...Eisenhower Administration's biggest antitrust suit to date, a federal grand jury charged RCA with conspiring to restrain the manufacture, sale and distribution of radio, television, radar and other electronic apparatus, and of monopolizing radio patent licensing in the U.S. Said the Government: "By this criminal indictment, we seek to restore competition in this significant industry so that all competitors of RCA can compete with it at every level from the research laboratory to the sale of end products...