Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kent State students walk into the office explaining that they have food for 10,000 people coming in this afternoon and that they need a place to put it. A skinny blonde, who assumed control of the "logistics" office early Thursday, looks on the map, reads off the street address of a reception center, then picks up a ringing phone...
...difference with him in the last year," replied the same junior faculty member. "He has been able to respond warmly and kindly to human beings who relate to him that way. He's not provocative in general except when provoked. Even under severe pressure his ability to retain emotional control is fantastic...
...Syndicate is threatening to use its control over the party machinery to force through a censure motion against Indira. Some Syndicate members favor the more drastic step of trying to expel her from the party. The looming schism poses many questions about what might happen next in Indian politics. One possibility: Indira could form a coalition between her wing of the party and the Communists and thus remain Prime...
...factor in school violence these days is racial desegregation. For one thing, it tends to bring the volatility of some ghetto students into the more decorous white community. To compound the difficulties, many school administrators underplay violence out of fear that it will reflect on their ability to maintain control. In Washington, D.C., for example, one elderly woman teacher was kicked in the shins so severely that several operations were required to remove blood clots in her legs. Yet instead of upholding her, the principal labeled her a "troublemaker." Students, realizing that punishment is unlikely, are soon out of control...
...brightest chapter in the history of cancer control in the U.S. relates to cancer of the uterus, the second commonest form of the disease in women. Once, it was almost invariably fatal. Now, although 42,000 American women develop the disease each year, two-thirds are saved by surgery. Medical authorities are confident that virtually all the remaining cases could be cured by earlier detection and prompt treatment...