Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors have ruled out further surgery. Radiation therapy is scheduled to start this week. If that does not control the cancer, medical experts say a variety of other treatments could be tried--drugs derived from nitrogen mustard gas or perhaps injections of radiotive gold...
...tail assembly is falling off the target . . . I am in front of the target . . . Look at him. He will not get away. He is already falling. Yes, he is falling. I will finish him off, boys, I will finish him off on the run. The target has lost control, it is going down . . . The target has turned over . . . Aha, you see, it is falling. Yes . . . form up, go home...
...basis of Navy need as he saw it, rather than percentage of the overall four-service defense budget; 2) he offered stubborn resistance to President Eisenhower's Defense Reorganization Act on the ground that it would sap service secretaries' powers, take Navy units out of Navy control. When the act passed last year, Gates's disappointment and his determination to get home to Philadelphia became an open Pentagon secret...
...drive for some last, Faubus-style gesture of defiance. "I don't feel defeated." said Almond, "just realistic." Carefully he picked 40 legislators for a commission to frame further resistance measures. Though segregationists all, the commission's members represented a gentle but firm shift away from control by the diehards from heavily Negro South-side Virginia, long the stronghold of Byrd control of the legislature...
...from the early days of the revolution for speedy union with Nasser's United Arab Republic. Kassem, a lean, brooding soldier with no political experience, wanted to keep Iraq independent of Cairo, and to fight off the Arab nationalist pressures made common cause with the Communists, who now control the street mobs of Baghdad. The two "brothers" fought, and Aref found himself accused of conspiring against the state and of trying to assassinate Kassem...