Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shades of temperament. Every experience boiled down to a doublecross. Most interesting doublecrosser was Stalin himself, not the bland, genial Stalin of the photographs, but an unpredictable Georgian who could rave one minute and cajole the next, but who never took his eye off the ball-control of Poland...
Churchill, in a brief speech, noted that Macaulay once described the abbey as a temple of reconciliation, where enmities of the past lay buried. Then, in a voice he could hardly control, Churchill said...
...Lemuel Shattuck, statistician and genealogist, wrote a report for the Massachusetts legislature that has become known as the "bible of public health in the U.S." He made 50 recommendations ranging from smoke control to pure food laws...
...sweltering, with days so hot they wondered how they could hear it. Each day that passed, a few of them found some excuse for going back to the cool spots they had just left. Or others, like Johnny West and Carl Bottenfield, were eliminated for reasons beyond their control. Still others with brittle legs found themselves in hospitals. But most of them stayed on, were off fat, and beat the hell out of each other...
Captain Phil Potter and center halfback Don Louria, both playing the final games of their college careers, led the way as the Crimson outran and outpassed a game Yale team, which at no time was able to match the ball control of the varsity...