Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British district commissioners -asked them what they thought of the chiefs who were running Guinea's 240 cantons. The commandants were delighted to help: this chief was lazy, that one corrupt. As a matter of fact, the whole cantonal system had degenerated into a kind of feudal thievery that was costing the government at least 400 million francs ($1.140,000) a year. With his devastating list of particulars in hand. Toure summarily abolished the chieftaincies. When the chiefs howled, he published the French list of charges against them. When the French officials howled in turn, it was too late...
...made to feel the weight of public disapproval . . . Unless the U.N. becomes, for all, an instrumentality of peace through justice and law, then some alternative must be found." ¶ Intensify within the U.N. General Assembly the quest-"in my view, sometimes overlooked"-for genuine moral judgments rather than "feudal" voting by "blocs," geographical regions or "haves versus havenots." ¶Spread rule of law inside the free world by greater use of the International Court of Justice. "We are closely examining the question of our own relationship to the International Court with the view of seeing whether ways and means...
...Colonel. Danny Kaye's first straight role is one of his best. As a meek, ingenious Polish refugee, he outsmarts a pompously feudal Polish officer (Curt Jürgens) and perhaps fate itself...
...aristocracy. The coming of the February elections, already postponed from year to year, threatened to turn over power to the representatives of the common class, who would necessarily be from the middle class. This would have, of course, led to much-needed land reforms--the anathema of the big feudal landlords--further reducing their power and their privileged position...
College (Princeton) releases Alfred from family pathos and small-town parochialism. O'Hara, a noncollege man who lives in Princeton, lavishes a special nostalgia on the college scene where an Ivy Leaguer becomes a species of feudal knight surrounded by noncollege varlets...