Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harbor, Me. (pop. 4,300), summer playground of the rich and famous on mountainous, timbered Mt. Desert (pronounced dessert) Island. All one day and all through one night, a great fire eccentrically marched and countermarched around the outskirts of the town, while hundreds of soldiers and townspeople fought to control it. In the afternoon, when the shifting wind began to blow a gale from the northwest, the fire crowned into the tops of trees and leaped forward "as fast as a race horse could run," blasting through wooded estates and touching off great houses along the shore...
Poles saw the news in their Sunday papers this week. With simple relief many said: "It's good he got away. Otherwise they would have hanged him." Short, rumpled Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Polish Peasant Party leader, had disappeared. With him went the last organized opposition to control of Poland by Moscow-trained Communists...
...present, both the U.S. dollar and the Dominican peso will be legal tender, but after three months, by Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's law, the dollar may be withdrawn from general circulation. The Central Bank will have the right to control all dollar exchange. Chief advantage for Dictator Trujillo: complete control over all his country's dollar purchases...
...flamadiddles were justified. In the November anniversary number, Editor Edward A. ("Ted") Weeks had rounded up: Albert Einstein on atomic-energy control (as told to Raymond Swing); war letters of General George S. Patton Jr.; unpublished love letters of Mark Twain; excerpts from the notebooks of Henry James; part of a new novel by John P. Marquand; articles by George Bernard Shaw, Budd Schulberg, Sumner Welles, Sir Richard Livingstone.* To show off these prizes to better advantage, the Atlantic had freshened up its format, run its first four-color cover and had its type face lifted by topnotch Typographer...
...only one word. Copies went out to what Levy calls "the guys with the big pipes"-Melchior, Nelson Eddy. Said Levy: "When guys like Sinatra and Crosby hear them singing it, they'll want to do it quick. Create a demand, that's what you do. But control the demand too. You gotta try to establish a song as a 'standard' like White Christmas...