Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also refused to accept the authority of the fledgling South Viet Nam government of Ngo Dinh Diem. Nine months ago Diem ordered two infantry divisions against Ba Cut and his feudal domain. Slowly, Diem's troops dispersed Ba Cut's power. By January, Ba Cut's forces had been reduced to a straggling band roaming from village to village just ahead of its pursuers...
When the Honolulu meeting was over, a reporter asked Dave Beck if the decisions taken had been designed to "put the brakes on" Jimmy Hoffa, whose organizing talents have spread his domain into 27 states. "Positively not!" boomed Beck. "Why in hell would we want to put the brakes on anybody who is doing that good a job of organizing? I wish I had 40 more like...
...gambling domain of Monte Carlo last week prepared a new game of chance, just for newsmen, who dubbed it "Rainier Roulette." Although hundreds of U.S. and European correspondents were preparing to cover the wedding of Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly of MGM, it looked as though only the luckiest kind of a chance would get any of the working press into the throne room and cathedral. Before leaving...
Actually, any parallel between a wire-tap and the Chicago study is fatuous. Juries are as much in the public domain as the courts, and the argument for secrecy, far from concerning an individual's right to privacy, is a question of efficiency alone. It is quite true that forcing juries to operate in a bell jar, as it were, would intimidate them, that it would stifle comments which might persuade by their acuteness, or at least, by their absurdity, give jurors a perspective on their colleague's argument...
...personable young prince seemed to have everything in the world that a prince could desire: a beautiful domain, happy subjects, a private zoo, a 200-room palace, a world-famed gambling casino, a 140-ft. yacht, lots of money. If Monaco, his principality, was one of the smallest independent states in the world (it would fit neatly in the middle of New York's La Guardia Airport), there were other compensations. For example, the prince had plenty of titles (16) and a Croix de guerre for his wartime service in the French army. Still, something was lacking: the prince...