Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three high commissioners-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's General Sir Brian Robertson, France's Andre François-Poncet-that they were ready to make the 22½? rate public at once. But the commissioners, whose powers under the Occupation Statute give them control over foreign exchange, asked the Germans to wait...
Privately, he gave foreign newsmen his idea of a fair plebiscite: "The Security Council should give us control of all Kashmir. After that, if you wish, we will have our own referendum...
Despite the relative freedom of border crossings,* and even allowing a tolerance for the imponderables of red tape, most Canadians felt such incidents occurred all too frequently. Said the Ottawa Citizen: "United States immigration authorities have been applying a 'thought control' policy that in recent months has caused many Canadians inconvenience and humiliation...
...course by pre-set gyroscopic instruments. When the instruments do not work just right, the rocket may dive to the ground, fly horizontally, or circle back with blood in its eye toward the launching platform. At least six of White Sands's rockets have circled. One missed the control blockhouse by only about 600 feet...
...highest nervous activity . . . consists of a continual change of these three fundamental processes- excitation, inhibition and disinhibition." Everything good is excitatory; everything inhibitory (in the Freudian jargon, repression) is bad-it deprives a man of self-confidence. Says Salter: "The happy person does not waste time thinking. Self-control comes from no control at all ... The inhibitory think, without acting, 'and-delude themselves into believing that they are highly civilized types ... All people whose good manners are noticeable are excessively inhibited . . ." Nonetheless, he admits that a few inhibitions, e.g., waiting for the green light and the family bathroom...