Word: governs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cologne was what M.G. had been training for. In Italy, no large manufacturing centers had yet been liberated. In Germany, the dense population centers, except Cologne, lay beyond the Rhine. M.G.'s success or failure in Cologne would set the pattern for the control commissions which will govern Germany after its armies are beaten...
...most astonishing thing that came out of our talks with these Germans is their lack of nationalism. They don't want to govern themselves, and in a dozen different ways they expressed the same idea: they regard Germany's future as an Allied problem. One after another they expressed the hope that they will be treated as some sort of American colony. Instead of resisting the thought of being ruled, they welcome it with almost childlike relief...
Despite their humble origins, microbes are as temperamental as coloraturas. They are fussy about temperature, about food, and about the company they keep. Some like plenty of air, some like none, and some govern their behavior according to whether they get it or not. In an airless, quiet place, yeast will produce wine ; in air it just reproduces itself. To keep such un reliable workers healthy, happy, and productive is the responsibility of a growing new species of industrial scientist, the biological engineer. His job: to reproduce on a factory scale biological processes and conditions none too easy to control...
Voice of Stalin. A devout Communist, 50-year-old Zhukov has been Stalin's political confidant, now to be entrusted with Berlin and the delicate business of speaking for Stalin in whatever Allied councils might govern a beaten Germany...
...with the road's completion, expected soon. In Chungking and elsewhere he talked with U.S. generals, Chinese leaders. The more he saw and heard, the more Mike Mansfield was convinced that China's gravest problem was the rift between the Kuomintang and China's Communists, who govern 90,000,000 Chinese.* Said...