Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since the Emperor Diocletian's price control edict (301 A.D.), and rigid economic regulation and manpower control had become a way of life in the Roman Empire. To Bureaucrat Caius Sempronius Felix (a fictional but true-to-history creation of British Novelist Alfred Duggan), his wife's question seemed unsophisticated. Felix could concede that controls discouraged production, halted expansion and bred more controls, but he found it unthinkable that society could ever again get along without them...
Taxes. For any fellow Republicans who thought the election was the signal for a tax-cutting field day, Ike laid down a clear, firm edict: budget cuts come before tax cuts...
...Cabinet met for the first time on Friday, and its two-hour session from a news viewpoint was remarkable for one reason: not even the most headline-conscious Cabinet member dared violate Ike's no-leak edict to tell what had happened...
Teetotalitaricm Edict. One evening last year, at the house of a favorite drinking companion-British Vice Consul Cyril Ousman-a third son of Ibn Saud's got tight and began making passes at a house guest from England. Ousman threw the young prince out. Next day, still drunk and blind with rage, the prince showed up, demanding the girl for his private collection. Once again Ousman tried to throw him out. The prince drew a pistol and began firing. The vice consul was killed, his wife wounded...
...King cut his son's sentence to a jail term with 20 lashes each month. The fault, he had decided, had been not so much the prince's as that of the foreigners who had taught him to drink. Several months later the King issued a teetotalitarian edict-forbidding the importation of all intoxicating liquors into Saudi Arabia...