Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After centuries of control by men, the world is still seared by ever more frequent and violent wars and threats of war. Fear, oppression, poverty, disease and crime still stalk abroad...
...administration of ERP would fall somewhere between George Marshall's insistence on out-&-out State Department control and opponents' demands for a bipartisan corporation. The committee compromise followed the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission, with a $20,000-a-year administrator of Cabinet rank, backed up by a bipartisan advisory board of twelve men chosen from outside the government. The administrator would have complete authority to make grants and loans (through the Export-Import Bank), would be responsible to the State Department only for mutual exchange of information...
...crux of Alsop's proposition for world peace was power politics. "We have power, economic and technological strength more gigantic than our eastern adversary," he claimed, and advocated hog-tying Russia's expansion policy by securing the friendship and economic control of her neighbors by means of the Marshall Plan...
Intra-University relief drives, athletics, and student problems will come under the control of a new six-school Joint Student Association, which moves into operation this month, the Student Council announced last night...
Aside from the vengeful motivation which seems far-fetched, "The Upturned Glass" looks less like a nocturnal fraternity initiation than most Scotland Yard goose-chases. Mason does a credible job as a doctor who is frustrated by his lack of control over mortality, and who plans his revenge as a gesture of independence. Mason the murderer, with a body on his hands, contrasts effectively with a disenchanted country pill-roller who is guiltless, but parttles of the hundreds he has "killed' in his practice. Further contrast comes when Mason scampers behind a railing to hide his crime from a gardener...