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Word: uncontrollable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permitted a photocopied memo informing 212 employees of their dismissal to be distributed last Oct. 31. Some of the people fired thought he bore them a personal grudge. Says one of his former aides: "Stan is deeply suspicious of the clandestine services. He is very uncomfortable with their basic uncontrol-lability. He doesn't like their fine clothes and accents, their Cosmos and Yale and Georgetown clubs. They're simply not good sailors. He finds them sneeringly elliptical. It drives him crazy. He just can't get hold of this maddening quicksilver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Tomorrow's CIA | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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