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Definition of Straitjackets
1. straitjacket [v] - See also: straitjacket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straitjackets
Literary usage of Straitjackets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prison Conditions in South Africa by Human Rights Watch (Organization)., Africa Watch Committee, Prison Project (Human Rights Watch) (1994)
"The Minister of Correctional Services stated in March 1993 that straitjackets
had been used sixty-one times in South African prisons during ..."
2. Labor and the Common Welfare by Samuel Gompers (1919)
"... straitjackets. To quote again Brand Whitlock's trenchant remark, "Socialists
would provide for everything except freedom." Beaten and halted by the ..."
3. The Library of Original Sources edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"... writing and arithmetic out of books and with children strapped in straitjackets
to fixed seats. If a teacher attempted to use clay modeling for ..."
4. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"... would be free to carry on every enterprise according to social needs and
requirements, and would not be handicapped by educational straitjackets. ..."
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