Word: restrainment
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...program of which you speak is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose. Such a purpose, it goes without saying, is not to destroy wealth, but to create a broader range of opportunity, to restrain the growth of unwholesome accumulations and to lay the burdens of government where they can best be carried...
...potato. The result of my operation is just short of marvelous. Even now. when I am not fully recovered. I need hardly open my mouth to obtain the pure tones difficult when the potato was in my throat. . . . My voice is like a young colt; I will have to restrain...
...working for the Interstate Commerce Commission. For two years he helped regulate the primordial greed of those early monsters of brutal business methods, the railroads. In 1908 he moved from the Interstate Commerce Commission to New York State's Public Service Commission, where he continued his effort to restrain the selfishness of utilities. In those two jobs he saw all the egregious forms of industrial skulduggery...
...Rome the dander of Benito Mussolini rose. For weeks he has been morally reproached by British newsorgans for his designs on Ethiopia. "On,the one hand Britain has attempted to invoke the League of Nations to restrain Italy, and on the other hand, Britain sanctions with Germany treaty violations presumably repugnant to all good league members!" exclaimed Il Duce's family newsorgan Il Popolo d'Italia. It added sarcastically: "Maybe, some day, the British-German accord will be pompously registered with the League, presumably, too, with the assent of the Delegate of Ethiopia...
...intense interest which is being manifested in my speech here causes me to proceed with almost undue caution, and I feel almost impelled to request Senators to restrain themselves lest they applaud me as I proceed with my lecture on this question. ... I will read a little further...