Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tradition dating back to King Henry of Navarre, France's chief of state is ex officio co-ruler of Andorra, a tiny (pop. 5,200) feudal principality of happy, Spanish-speaking shepherds and smugglers nestling amid the peaks of the Pyrenees. This amiable sharing of rulers has not prevented Andorrans from quarreling almost continuously with their big neighbor and protector to the north. Last week they were at it again, and, as both co-Prince of Andorra and President of the Republic of France, blinking, kindhearted Vincent Auriol was in the middle...
Hungary was a vestigially feudal country when the Communists took it over in 1944 in their sweep toward Vienna. The conquerors' remedy was the one Lenin had prescribed for Russia: speedy industrialization. With the same ruthless disregard for human life which characterized Stalin's carrying out of the Leninist injunction, they pursued this end: farmlands were collectivized, workers brutally regimented, living standards depressed. Last week, in a swift move that had overtones of the great Moscow turnabout of the '20s, the Hungarian Communists reversed their program...
...wife, two children and a Buick and must be nameless"). Returning home after midnight, she found her husband, Robert Wilcox, arguing with another rival named John McNeill ("It went on and on and I kept saying 'Shut up, boys, shut up, don't be so Hemingway-feudal' "). After two fights ("I said, 'Boys, don't kill anyone in the apartment; it would be awfully messy' "), McNeill was carted off to the hospital for scalp repairs. Diana conceded that possibly her husband was in the right (". . . the defiled nest and all that sort of thing...
...pledge of allegiance is of course simply mumbo jumbo (a relic of Feudal days, when a pledge was supposed to have some magic in it) which can be of no use in this connection; for it would not make out of the disloyal teacher a patriot, nor is it necessary in order to take such a teacher to book when he does violate the constitution. It is simply a waste of effort, time and money, aside from causing friction and consuming energy needed in productive work...
...future, Wright thought, New York will become even more of a village. "You'll see more greenery in 25 years. Grass will grow where least expected, and flowers will bloom in the concrete. Big cities are a hangover from feudal times. Once they were necessary, but they reached and passed their peak, and now you will see them disappearing...