Word: control
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accused himself denied knowledge of atrocities, such as the use of gas wagons painted like carnival caravans which were employed by SS troops for mass executions. "Obviously some people acted differently from the way I expected them to act," he snapped. "A commander in chief can control his subordinates only to a very limited extent...
...Governor Wu spoke, the last Nationalist troops on the mainland were streaming across the border into Indo-China, and the Chinese Communists held uncontested control of the Asian coastline from the Gulf of Tonkin almost to Vladivostok. Only the remnants of the Nationalist armies stood against the certainty that China's Communists would try to take Formosa, thus driving a dangerous wedge between strategic U.S. positions in Japan and Okinawa to the north, and in the Philippines to the south...
White House Christmas Tree (Sat. 5 p.m., all networks). President Truman lights the Christmas tree in Washington by remote control from Independence...
...this might point to invalidation of the election. But it seems hardly worth while to throw the newly-elected committee--probably the correct one by now--out of office. This election got completely out of control, as the Council must have discovered after two days of counting and recounting. Realization of the mistakes plus uncomfortable publicity should be enough to insure a more even-handed operation next time...
...tonight is the problem of breaking their high-scoring due of John Rockwell and Ed Smith loose against the Gymnasis. Harvard's two top scorers were held to a total of 18 points in Saturday night's 58 to 33 defeat at the hands of Georgetown, and seem to control the varsity's fate tonight...