Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...long and difficult" road to peace. Though many people were troubled and "rightly troubled" by the H-bomb, he added, it did not change these facts. So with a firm no he answered those friends abroad and citizens at home who wanted a fresh approach to negotiating an atomic-control treaty with Russia before both the world's great powers stand poised with the H-bomb. This was no time-the "facts" were not advantageous-to get a useful agreement from Russia, he argued...
...unusual success of the post-war Italian film has been with proletarian tragedy. Its shoeshine boys and unemployed slum-dwellers are caught up in vast economic forces beyond their comprehension or control. Both Rossellini and de Sica had only to step out in the street to find actors who had already lived the roles. But Rossellini had to depart from the sociological for the psychological to give Miss Bergman a role with depth enough for her talents...
Provost Buck, who took control of the "football situation" with a vengeance in December, has acted with determination in his first two public moves. He allowed Arthur Valpey to look for and accept a new job; he then proceeded to California and cancelled the Stanford game. The latter move, while perhaps not a completely happy one, is certainly sensible; we probably should not have signed a contract in the first place...
...instance, a single box of Kellogg's Pep offers, for box top and a price, a two-tone beanie, a magno-power '50 Ford ("oh boy--eye-popping thrills"), and a Donald Duck ring which rolls its eyes and opens its mouth when you apply the secret magnetic control (in the form of a miniature Pep box.) And inside amidst the Pep there is a plastic statuette, one of eighteen in a series ranging from football players to broncos rampant...
...opinion," Charles M. LaFollette, national director of the ADA, wrote to the Defense Secretary, "the Navy Department is leading the nation down a dangerous path by insisting on making informers' of the youths under its control...