Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy had stiffened in Germany. Washington postponed the plan to transfer control of the U.S. zone from Army officers to the State Department. Two days later Washington made it clear that the U.S. intended to stay in Berlin, despite Soviet sabotage of the Allied Control Council and Soviet efforts to shoulder the U.S. out the door...
...Stilwell be replaced. Stilwell writes, "It looks very much as if they had gotten me at last. The Peanut has gone off his rocker and Roosevelt has apparently let me down completely. If Old Softie gives in on this, as he apparently has, the Peanut will be out of control from now on. . . . God help the next...
...months the Allied Control Council had bumbled along in wordy futility, while the cleavage widened between the U.S., Britain and France on one side and the Soviet Union on the other. Intended as a policy and lawmaking body for the four-power occupation of Germany, the council had degenerated into little more than a launching site for propaganda rockets. Making more propaganda, Russia's Marshal Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky took a pre-arranged walkout (TIME, March...
Last week his aim was mirrored by the Soviet-controlled German press in screaming headlines: "Western Powers Destroy Control Council." By blaming the West for the council's paralysis, the Soviets hoped to gain support among Germans who see it as the symbol of eventual German unity...
Through the door of Locker Room No. 30 at Madison Square Garden, a head poked: "Three minutes to go, Mr. Hickey." The sawed-off evangelist in the brown pin stripe nodded and continued his spiel. "The ball belongs to the champion," he said. "Possession! Control! Don't go for the bucket. Wait until the bucket comes...