Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislators for universal military training because of its "moral effect on the Russians." Their argument was full of contradictions. One top administrator summed them up: "We are sure Russia doesn't want war any more than the U.S. but she has set in motion forces which she cannot control...
...high officer of the Social Democratic Party said: "The Communists may try their tricks, but you will see, here we can control the workers." One of his colleagues said: "You think we'll weaken, but you don't know Finlanders." And then he added an echo of pure 1939: "We aren't Czechs...
Until last week, however, the West made little serious effort to use the Ruhr for what it was-the key to Europe's recovery, the key to control of Europe. First the British alone occupied it, although they did not have the resources needed to get it going again. Then it was brought into the joint U.S.-British economic administration called Bizonia. The French refused to enter any arrangements for the rehabilitation of the Ruhr, because they wanted assurance that the area would be separated from Germany and placed under international political control. Britain and the U.S. knew that...
...Truman's policy toward the Hory Land would change between now and November. Flynn added, it could be assumed "without question" that the Democrats will again control the district...
Sergo Koussevitsky did a masterful job with his orchestra and chorus yesterday, and the soloists, Carol Brice, David Lloyd (tenor), James Pease (baritone), and Wesley Addy (speaker) were better than good. The Harvard Glee Club was at its best in voice and control for the occasion. Before the main event Dr. Koussevitzky and orchestra gave their customarily rigid performance of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, the first and last movements of which remain to this critic deserts of brisk but avid content...