Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handed Joe Curran, skipper of the C.I.O.'s big National Maritime Union, had won almost every tussle in his long struggle against Communist control. But it was like fighting a hydra: Joe had to wrestle the Communists and fellow travelers one by one, and every time he pinned one down, another bobbed up. Another trouble was that the Commies were so strongly entrenched that they usually got themselves re-elected to the key union jobs...
...thick morning, the control tower at Tempelhof was hushed as operators tried for contact with a C-54, lost for an hour over the city. Finally the plane landed. "Here they got the fifth largest city in the world," muttered a relieved tower operator, "and they miss...
Within two hours after Togliatti was shot, the machinery of insurrection clanked and rumbled into action as if the control lever had been accidentally jarred. The Red press screamed "Murderers!" at the government. In Rome a mob of sweating, cursing workers hurled cobblestones at grey-clad mobile police, who fired into the air and swung their clubs in earnest. The mobs that poured into the streets frightened the elegant aristocracy and the free-spending tourists in the Via Vittorio Veneto; these gentry, knowing they might be targets for Communist vengeance, retreated to their select caverns of safety, the cool bars...
They go fastest in the region just beyond Changchun's perimeter. There, between Nationalist and Communist lines, is one of the no man's lands known as "san-pu-kuan" (three-don't-care), signifying territory where neither Nationalist, Communist nor local authority bothers to exercise control. This is a dark and bloody ground for bandits, usually army deserters, who prey on the passing crowd. They have guns, horses and passwords...
Hollywood had known something of the meteoric Howard Hughes story for two decades. He had always been an independent-a lone wolf, unpredictable and exasperatingly successful most of the time. Now he had stepped into control of a top studio. After trying (characteristically) to get the stock for two points less than the market, he had paid Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium a whacking $8,825,690 for 929,020 shares...