Word: feudality
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...public. Like this: a member surgeon charges a man having a $5,000-a-year income $500 for an essential operation on the man's wife. Ten percent is not at all unusual in such circumstances . . . This plan would provide the A.M.A. with ample funds to fight its feudal battle...
...with a tradition of Indian life since Buddha-the imaginative appeal of a highborn Brahman, such as Nehru, giving up a life of ease to join a popular cause such as liberation from British rule. Finally, the largely illiterate masses of India, not yet beyond a feudal horizon, still look up to their ruler as a child looks to its parent...
Died. Niall Diarmid Campbell, 77, tenth Duke of Argyll, hereditary chief (Mac Cailean Mhor, a rank created in 1286) of famed Clan Campbell (green, black, navy blue tartan); at his castle in Argyll, Scotland. A crotchety, feudal-minded bachelor, the multi-titled duke (Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Marquis of Lome and Kintyre) regarded the modern world as a personal outrage, once threatened to toss bureaucratic "snoopers" into his dungeons...
...President-elect Otilio Ulate, who have forgotten that Figueres won last year's civil war for them, he went to the people in a radio broadcast. "Costa Rica," he declared, "must not be at the mercy of a social clique. It must not be committed to a feudal system with a puppet congress manipulated for political purposes by a reactionary group...
...large scale land reform will be carried on by confiscating land belonging to "feudal landlords" and organizing agricultural cooperatives...