Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's democratically elected representatives all this smacked unpalatably of dictatorship-and at a time when France was supposed to be fighting for Democracy. Before voting the Premier his renewed powers they forced him publicly and formally to disown any intention of lessening Parliamentary prestige and control and to agree to "submit" his decrees to Parliament's "judgment" whenever practical...
...Characteristic part of Balkan political life is the student demonstration, often a bought-&-paid-for affair. At Belgrade, university students broke up a meeting of the Yugoslav Friends of France. Yugoslav authorities suspected Russian agents were responsible, arrested 50 students, put the autonomous Belgrade University under direct governmental control...
...their backs and legs, stiff necks, indigestion, insomnia. First thing she does is to have them thoroughly examined by a doctor. Then she massages and applies hot pads to their tensest muscles. Because relaxing is largely psychological, Dr. Rathbone puts her pupils through a course in learning how to control their muscles, cultivating the will to relax. When they go to bed, she advises them, they must repeat to themselves: "I will not permit the tensions that have beset me during the day to return...
...selling Sam Insull a huge block of stocks in Insull companies for $56,000,000, about $6,000,000 above its market value. His financing, in the hardbitten, buccaneering tradition of the Coolidge Era, took on a heroic cast because it brought to the Middle West its share of control of American Industry. Admiring Clevelanders called him "Cyrus the Great...
...terminal in the world where trans-Atlantic planes can dock in the roughest weather. Clear of approach obstructions to jangle the nerves of pilots, the field also has many a piece of expensive equipment to make life easier. Examples: a stop-go traffic light system for taxiing planes; a control tower fitted with 16 radio receivers to hear calls on any airline frequency...