Word: controlled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...South Viet Nam, where they could operate with impunity at close range. But beyond such specific worries, U.S. military leaders also weigh a bombing pause in terms of momentum and morale. The air campaign is the only part of a frustrating war in which the allies exert control over the tactical situation and the pace of the action...
...effectively dominated by it. South Africans already own or manage most of Swaziland's business and industry and hold much of the 44% of the country's land owned by foreigners. Swaziland uses the South African rand as a medium of exchange. South African customs inspectors control the flow of its commerce. Air travelers to Swaziland must even pass through the Johannesburg airport passport controls. Despite their dislike of South Africa's harsh apartheid racial policy, the newly independent Swazis are in no position to resist big brother's embrace...
...board of trustees of the Menninger Foundation told a group of Park College students. "You say it isn't safe to walk down the streets today. It never was safe to walk down some streets." The world, insisted Menninger, "is getting better. We're getting better control of violence and of our own behavior than we've ever had before." Then he added: "But let's get the world just a little more civilized still...
...member United Federation of Teachers was threatening to repeat its opening-bell strike of last September. Then, the main issue was more money for the teachers. This year, the dispute centers on a controversy over efforts to break up the city's huge, bureaucratic system and turn control of the schools over to community-run local boards. Some such decentralization was ordered by New York's state legislature last year in return for providing the city with more state funds. The move has aroused racial passions, challenged teacher security, unsettled the bureaucrats and touched off public hassles...
...faithful to accept the Pope's teaching in the encyclical. After reading the letter from the pulpit at Sunday Mass, O'Donoghue went on to quote from the Catholic University statement and from several European prelates who have emphasized the role of conscience in the birth control question. The Cardinal showed up at the St. Francis de Sales rectory, accused O'Donoghue of "insubordination" and "disturbing and confusing the faithful." O'Boyle then suspended him from preaching, teaching and hearing confessions, ordered him to leave the rectory within five days. When O'Donoghue...