Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists had repeatedly tried to make him resign his office. He refused. Recently, Lutheran Bishop Zoltan Thuroczy-who wants to play along with the Reds-visited Ordass in his cell and delivered a Communist ultimatum: either Ordass resigns, or Communist Boss Rakosi puts the Lutheran Church under complete state control, with a government commissioner in charge. Last week Ordass still held...
Rumania announced sweeping new decrees empowering the government to control all religious groups; the funds and properties of all churches; and the establishment of new parishes. All five bishops of Rumania's Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church (which is affiliated with Rome) have been jailed. About 600 Uniate priests have been imprisoned...
...years that have passed since then, the glitter of royalty has disappeared from most of the world, France's empire has almost been forgotten, kings have given way to commoners, and the Suez Canal itself, under British control, has flowed on through the rise & fall of many another empire. Through all those years Eugénie's La Reine has stretched and slept under the hot Egyptian...
...educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Paley was doing all right (vice president in charge of advertising) in his family's Congress Cigar Co. when he decided there was money in radio. Impressed because radio plugs boosted his La Palina cigar sales by 150%, in 1928 he bought control of CBS for $300,000. Since he took charge, the network has grown from 20 stations...
Cerebral palsy is caused by certain unexplained variations in brain structure, or by a breakdown in the brain motor centers from an injury before or during birth. Having no control over certain muscles, severe cases are often unable to perform such simple functions as speaking, walking, or feeding themselves. Cerebral palsy cannot be cured. The best that can be done is to train other parts of the brain to take over the duties normally performed by the injured or missing section...