Word: feudality
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...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...
...some of the points mentioned by him, Pakistan's poverty does not "far surpass India's." Per capita income in both countries is about the same. The problem of absentee land holdings was first tackled in the Eastern wing when the State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950 abolished feudal "Zamindari" which was originally created by the British after their conquest of Bengal. In West Pakistan, a somewhat different system of landlordism has persisted, but plans to reform it are a top priority item with the new Government. Pakistan's population is growing currently at a rate slower than that...
...takes friends and bribes to get these jobs. Even those who do work must act as black marketeers, procurers and smugglers to feed their families. A radical program of land reform that would eliminate Pakistan's large and absentee holdings will only begin to make their lives easier. Feudal agricultural methods, taxes that penalize the thrifty and industrious, a legal system that few can understand, and the seemingly interminable border disputes with India are but a few of the other problems facing General Ayub...