Word: controllable
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Wendy Carle, the squad's other cocaptain, tried to keep the young team under control in Curry's absence, but set plays soon dissolved into the "shoot first, ask questions later" offense with which Crimson fans are getting all too familiar...
...wasn't until the second policeman arrived that they got him handcuffed and under control," Rivkin said. He added that the man shouted that the first policeman had hit him and "that he would have his day in court...
Although residents of the Lesley area don't have to fear immediate expansion, neighbors have tried to set up some legislative "No Trespassing" signs anyway. Long-standing attempts at down-zoning--making the area harder to develop--succeeded last year. And an in-the-works ordinance to control institutional use of property may hit Lesley harder than Harvard...
...Ukraine has been strongly religious. Located southwest of Moscow, the region, with a population of 50 million, is agriculturally rich and deeply nationalist. In the 1930s Stalin all but crushed the autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church and in 1946 expunged Eastern-rite Roman Catholicism in favor of the more easily controlled Russian Orthodox Church. Even so, the Ukraine by official count still has 4,000 of the 11,000 Orthodox churches now open in the U.S.S.R.-only a fraction of the 53,000 churches in Russia before 1917. Protestant Ukrainians have been active since the early 1960s in a Baptist reform...
Dissenters reject all state control, including government-required registration. But one Protestant reports 200 Baptist or Pentecostal congregations have been registered in the U.S.S.R. over the past five years, about half of them Ukrainian. Dukhonchenko reckons there are only about 8,000 reformers left in Kiev, and only 18,000 across the Soviet Union...