Word: feudal
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...time consumed was not surprising. Only eight years away from feudal tyranny, craggy Nepal is a hodgepodge of Newars, Magars, Limbu, Murmi and Brahmans, sorely lacks paved roads and modern communications. Literacy is so low (6%) that parties were identified on the ballot boxes by pictures. The whole idea of an election, in fact, is so foreign to Nepalese that they have no word for "vote," were obliged to borrow the English...
...schoolteacher). Tillich has been acutely aware of the two temperamental traditions at war within him. "In the East [of Germany]," as he has described it, "a meditative bent tinged with melancholy, a heightened consciousness of duty and personal sin, a strong sense for authority and feudal traditions . . . while the West is characterized by zest of living, sensuous concreteness, mobility, rationality and democracy . . . These contradictory qualities were rooted in me-my life, inward and outward, to be enacted on their battleground...
...together own 7,500,000 acres. Henceforth, no owner shall be allowed to hold more than 500 acres of irrigated or 1,000 acres of non-irrigated land. The rest will be divided among his tenant farmers. Though owners will be in part compensated in government bonds, those holding feudal jagirs-the gifts of the Mogul kings to their favored warriors-will not. Eventually, as Ayub knows, the lasting benefits of his rule will depend on how well he carries out land reform...
...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...