Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican 80th Congress, Jenner and his fellow isolationists had felt duty-bound to tone down their opposition to party-and bipartisan-policy. With the Democrats back in control, their coats were...
Though he had asked for a two-year extension and a stiffening of federal rent control, Truman hailed the new, 15-month local option bill as a triumph of "the joint efforts of the Congress and the Administration." The National Association of Real Estate Boards, in equally strange fashion, publicly praised the new rent law though they had privately complained to the President against it. The C.I.O., to confound the confusion, called the rent law "counter to the wishes of the people as expressed by President Truman . . ." The C.I.O. apparently hadn't got the word yet; at the moment...
...Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension and still more beyond his control. While he nursed the illusion of growing mastery and exulted in his new trappings, he became the sport and presently the victim of tides and currents, of whirlpools and tornadoes amid which he was far more helpless than he had been for a long time...
...because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot afford to allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast areas they control and the civilizations of the West...
...powerful Kentucky and the aggravating, defense-minded Oklahoma Aggies. What the crowd saw was a duel in coaching strategy with overtones of a championship chess match. Kentucky, which specializes in brisk, aggressive basketball, deliberately slowed down to the Aggies' own "slow death" pace. So artis-ically didx Kentucky control the ball that 'or one twelve-minute stretch the Aggies 'ailed to score a single field goal. When Oklahoma's big center, Bob Harris, went out on personal fouls in the second period, it was all over. By a score of 46-36, Kentucky became national collegiate...