Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Habaneras hoped that Army control would bring peace between the rival police factions. There was no guarantee. Said one Tro man: "Those who shoot people from behind cannot expect to die from shots from the front...
...Canada before the first World War and settled near Saanichton, on Vancouver Island. She has an uncle in Liverpool, a cousin in Seattle, but her best friend is whimsical Columnist-Editor Bruce Hutchison, who lives near Saanichton too, and who helps run the Winnipeg Free Press by remote control...
...life. Don Gillis' new Symphony for Fun was the kind of thing the maestro could let himself go on. On the podium, he swayed, sang, all but strutted a cakewalk. Once the Toscanini temper flared up-when the xylophonist floundered over a particularly tricky passage. In the studio control room, Composer Gillis watched the struggling xylophonist, whispered to a companion: "Poor guy. Doesn't he realize that no one could possibly play that passage? Even I know that...
...Massachusetts' intransigent nationalist Henry Cabot Lodge argued the merits of the League of Nations. Britain's Viscount Grey chose Foreign Affairs for his declaration on freedom of the seas during the London naval conference, and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault had recently argued France's case for control of the Ruhr...
...Rock owned fabulously rich iron ore lands with proven reserves of 30 million tons; geophysicists estimated that they might contain as much as 500 million tons, half as rich as Mesabi. The trouble was that the ore lay under Steep Rock Lake and 150 feet of water. Eaton bought control of Steep Rock for an initial cash outlay of only $20,000, and started his big planning...