Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pwee) cleansed his government of Communists and successfully "integrated" the army, i.e., interned one of the rebel units-a move that sent the other fleeing toward Communist North Viet Nam. He made it clear that he no longer wanted any part of the three-power (Poland, India, Canada) international control commission established by the 1954 Geneva agreement, for while the Canadians sat around frustrated, the Reds used the Poles to keep close tab on Laos. Things were going well for the West in Laos...
...fire engines had been headed for a minor flare-up in some trash barrels a few feet from where Rutherford "had parked his death-laden truck. Assistant Fire Chief Roy McFarlane thought he had things under control, sent one fireman to the hospital with burned hands. City Patrolman Don DeSues, 32, took over traffic direction at the nearest corner. Suddenly, George Rutherford's truck went off with a blast bigger than a World War II blockbuster, dug a 50-ft.-wide crater 20 ft. deep, pulverized six blocks of business buildings, transients' apartments and homes, smashed the windows...
...half a century virtually the only Frenchmen to show much interest in the desert sands were adventurers and eccentrics. Tindouf, now one of the French army's most important Sahara outposts, was not occupied until 1934, and the last of the marauding desert bands was not brought under control until...
...Been appointed to the Red-led National Front Central Action Committee immediately after the 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia, which put the minority Communists in control of the land...
What has enabled Price to transform the prefab is intensive automation of his factories. IBM machines control quality and monitor shipments. Nailing machines pound nails into interior and exterior sections with a single bang, and machines automatically cut, sand and paint every section. Overhead cranes move parts down a long assembly line, hoist them onto one of Price's fleet of 476 trucks which take on a house every seven minutes...