Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arkansas' dark and taciturn John McClellan proposed a rider directing the President to cut all money measures by at least 5%, and a maximum of 10%. Amidst bellows from Administration leaders that this was a "sham and pretense," to say nothing of an inglorious surrender of Congress' control of the national purse, McClellan's resolution went down...
...Barsov had some explaining to do himself. In his shabby room in Washington a TIME correspondent found another document, like the diary in his own handwriting. It rang with Marxian clichés ("Now I am in the hands of those 'whistling dancers'-men who obtained control . . . through a cruel exploiting of the working class") and the sickening self-accusations of the Moscow purge trials. Wrote Barsov: "I am giving this confession maybe before dying." He had made his break, he pleaded to invisible judges, not because he was the least bit dissatisfied with the Russian system...
...which relatives in America sent.them. One day, Giuliano strode into the post office and coolly bumped off Postmaster Abate, oppressor of the poor. The peasants complained about the prices Giuseppe Terranova charged for flour, shoes and soap, and the interest he charged on loans. Giuliano decided to enforce price control; he led Terranova into Montelepre's piazza, read out a formal death sentence and shot...
...such words as "renegade," "traitor," "scum." But it was not until rich, scholarly and ambitious Bronson Cutting bought the New Mexican in 1912 that it swept toward the high tide of its influence. In 23 years as Publisher Cutting's personal mouthpiece, the paper helped him win political control of the state and eight years in the U.S. Senate...
...such words as "renegade," "traitor," "scum." But it was not until rich, scholarly and ambitious Bronson Cutting bought the New Mexican in 1912 that it swept toward the high tide of its influence. In 23 years as Publisher Cutting's personal mouthpiece, the paper helped him win political control of the state and eight years in the U.S. Senate...