Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House, Secretary of State George Marshall had met behind closed doors with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Said Marshall: "The hour is far more fateful now than it was a year ago. By intimidation, fraud and terror, Communist regimes have been imposed upon Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Totalitarian control has been tightened in other countries of Eastern Europe, and these states have been linked together in a network of alliances. Other European peoples face a similar threat...
Inverchapel told his audience that the main political problem in Britain and other Western democracies is "to reconcile liberty with control by the community of the community's material fortunes...
...stick-swinging clash between Yale captain Artic Moher and Dave Abbot, Harvard wingman, brought the rubber game of the Harvard-Yale hockey series to a turbulent close at New Haven last night with the Elis leading, 10 to 3. With the contest completely out of official control, Crimson coach John Chase withdrew his team from the ice with one minute and 15 seconds to play...
Also announced this week was a grant of $40,000 by the National Cancer Institute of the U.S. Public Health Service to the School of Public Health for the purpose of studying cancer control. The grant was part of a $292,234 fund distributed to 15 health agencies in this country...
...pointed out that the river was frozen over in the winter anyhow. Casting suspicion on the cost estimates in general, Lodge compared the planning to "a man running across the country like a house afire with his shirt tail out." Saltonstall felt that provisions to give New York control of power facilities were bad for the surrounding states. "New York will take the best of it for itself and turn over what is left to New England," he complained...