Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the final tally gave Prio 889,000 votes. His Liberal opponent, Dr. Ricardo Núñnez Portuondo, got 608,000; fiery little Senator "Eddy" Chibas got 318,000. The Communists, recently kicked out of control of Cuban labor, still turned in 142,000 votes (about 80,000 less than in 1944) for Dr. Juan Marinello...
Before the speechifying started, the Bowl audience was entertained by a lively, two-hour amateur musical show called The Good Road, in which 160 Buchmanites skillfully compounded propaganda for "God-control" from such various elements as Swiss yodelers, Joan of Arc, Lincoln, Washington, the Magna Carta, a G.I. on Okinawa, and an average family...
...Buchman, in a New York World-Telegram interview: I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler who built a front line of defense against the Anti-Christ of Communism . . . Think what it would mean to the world if Hitler surrendered to God . . . Through such a man God could control a nation overnight and solve every last bewildering problem...
...Rome Franciscans from the Holy Land announced their intention to raise a militia of from 500 to 1,000 Christian volunteers of all nationalities to help the 408 friars now in Palestine in protecting the shrines under their control from looting and from Arabs or Jews who would use them for military purposes...
Columbia University Psychiatrist Abram Kardiner attacked what he called Kinsey's plea for tolerance toward perversion. Moral laws that separate men from the other animals are not "historical happenstance"; they grew, he said, out of necessity for control...