Word: containment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explained Nicholas Tsaousis, Security Police director: "this is a measure of how fanatically Communist he is. I've noticed that some men begin to talk after only five days' solitary confinement. Politis was solitary for a long time, and when he found he could contain himself no longer, he bit his tongue...
...military mission -nicknamed the "Temple of Knowledge" by sour Greek officers-for talks with the U.S. staff. To correspondents, U.S. officers explained that no decisive action was possible this year because winter had already come to the mountains in northern Greece. All that could be done was to contain the guerrillas, and prepare a spring offensive. Remarked Ambassador Grady: "The situation ... is not completely satisfactory...
Definition. In Rochester, England, the city food-control committee decided not to prosecute a food vendor when it learned from the Ministry of Food that "meat pies aren't required to contain any meat...
Late one night last January an inspector tailed the "doctor" to an express office and watched him address a package to a Louisiana doctor. When opened, it proved to contain abortion paste ($5 a tube, enough for three perilous abortions). An FDA man followed the package to its destination and seized it as evidence. Later, another package was trailed through the mails to Arkansas...
...center will contain both single and double rooms. The singles will be 9 by 13 fact and equipped with desk, desk-chair, couch-bed, dresser closet and bookshelf. The doubles will be 18 by 13 feet, and will be designed so that they can be diviled by a curtain for privacy...