Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hapless mutineers stumbled off to their cells, the Communists turned their control of press, radio, unions and of the Baghdad street mobs to seek out other enemies, particularly in the Foreign Office. For the first time the Communist press openly demanded representation in the government. In Washington, U.S. Intelligence Chief Allen Dulles told a Senate subcommittee last week that the situation in Iraq is one of "the most dangerous in the world today." But the manner in which the Communists pressed for more power showed that they did not have it yet. At week's end Iraq celebrated...
...With the fire of battle glinting once again in his green eyes, Siqueiros scoffed: "What kind of tragedy did you expect me to portray in a mural?°A Greek tragedy? Nonsense. For me, tragedy in present-day Mexico is the struggle of labor to become independent of government control. Besides, why are you so shocked? You knew what my politics were before you contracted...
...common: as children they had been exposed to unbridled violence between parents and other adults, as well as to frequent brutal whippings. And all had suffered emotionally from loss or separation of parents. As a result, argued Dr. Satten, they had become "predisposed to severe lapses in ego control," were incapable of counting to ten before acting, but lashed out impulsively and instantaneously...
...doctors' most damning discovery: "Three of these four murderers had conveyed their fears of losing control to legal officials or psychiatrists before the murders. The warnings were disregarded...
...Stock Control. Hoping to avoid a proxy fight, Evans and Landa persuaded Gurdon Wattles, chairman of Electric Auto-Lite Co. and a Crane director, to back them with 322,900 shares of Crane stock owned by Auto-Lite. They also went to Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, 89, only living daughter of Crane's founder, explained that Evans' chief argument with Crane President Neele E. Stearns was over Stearns's slowness in expanding the firm's inadequate network of independent wholesalers. Proof of Evans' complaint was Crane's first-quarter earnings (23? per share...