Word: feudality
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This year marks the seven-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the British parliament, conceived as a fortress of feudal, aristocratic power. We also celebrate the one thousand thirty-fifth year of the less well-known but equally durable Icelandic parliamentary assembly, the Allthing...
...state in which it is located gets it through "escheat," a feudal doctrine by which the land of a man who died without heirs reverted to the original grantor, or lord of the manor. But escheat (from the Latin ex cadere, to fall out) raises prickly problems with such abandoned intangible property as unclaimed checks because the debts involved have no one physical location. Which state is entitled to escheat a debt owed by a company incorporated in New Jersey, with main offices in Pennsylvania, to a person who once lived in Texas but whose last known address...
...YEMEN was ruled by leftist, Nasser-leaning Crown Prince Mohammed al Badr when the Russians first moved in to build a $15 million Red Sea port at Hodeida in the feudal land. When Al Badr turned conservative in 1962 under Republican attack, the Soviets reversed themselves to back the opposition headed by Abdullah Sallal, built him an airport and 150 low-cost houses, promised $72 million more in various projects. None have even been begun, since Moscow is plainly worried that it may have switched to the wrong horse in midstream. All told, Moscow has offered $142 million...
...brash, impulsive go-getter who won international acclaim last month for his near-faultless performance as State Minister in charge of the Olympic Games, Kono loves to be called "oya-bun," the admiring title given to the most ruthless gangster lords in feudal Japan. Today, it symbolizes a political boss who inspires unswerving loyalty and obedience in his supporters...
George Cabot Lodge '50 told an audience of Harvard Dames last night that "what you see in these countries [Latin America] is the dissolution of the feudal system..." and that "aggressive forces on the left are rushing in to fill the vacuum...