Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original principles of the HLU," which was founded in 1941 by men "tired of Communist Party tactic in the American Student Union." He pointed to "Capturing: of the HLU in the spring of 1946 by the local American Youth for Democracy chapter and the subsequent reversal of control last Fall. In the spring of 1947 repeated attempts to bring about affiliation with SDA were defeated...
Ballad singer Susan Reed smiled prettily yesterday over her slither-like "ever" lovin," pointed through a glass window to the cluster of WHHV official standing shyly in their control booth, and complained that although Harvard men are "fine," they always "hide in the next room...
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán had done it again. The rabble-rousing Liberal leader followed up his victory in the congressional elections last March by another in last week's municipal voting. Henceforth, Liberals will control 465 municipal councils, Conservatives 321. Gaitán had mopped up among the workers in the newly industrialized towns and cities, more than offsetting Conservative gains in the countryside, where twelve people died in Harlan-County-style election-night fights...
...only really effective cure for fatness, Dr. Bruch believes, is not in exercise or diets (although the "pure mechanical reducing," now popular in the reducing academies, is sometimes surprisingly successful, but only when the students have enough emotional control of themselves to go through with the course). Fatness, she says, is a psychosomatic condition; the blubbery patient belongs not in the gym, but in a psychiatrist's office. She implies that, with modern insight and sympathetic doctors, such well-known fatties as St. Thomas Aquinas, William Howard Taft, Hermann Goring or Charles the Fat might have been skinnies...
...question still unanswered was how much control over Bizonia's occupation policies Congress would demand in return for more U.S. dollars. Looking for a compromise which would keep both Congress and the British happy, the conferees had one big point to make. Britain will still maintain the bulk of her 200,000-man occupation army in Bizonia, thus precluding the necessity for sending any more U.S. troops...