Word: feudality
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...Originally, wandering, masterless samurai of feudal Japan...
...indisputable achievements of Soviet Russia-in space, science, education, industrial growth-have been amply chronicled in an unprecedented anniversary outpouring. From feudal czarist Russia the heirs of Marx and Lenin have created a modern state that trails only the U.S. in power and production. Moreover, though no country has ever freely elected a Communist government, they have managed to impose their ideology on one-third of the earth's population, about one billion people...
...from the throne. In 1960, introducing Pakistani-style "controlled democracy," he abolished political parties, put the election of the legislature on an indirect basis and clapped potential troublemakers in jail. This has left him free to emancipate women and untouchables, end polygamy and begin breaking up Nepal's feudal estates...
...Spanish bishops and French rulers since the Middle Ages. None of the 46 French kings, emperors and presidents who preceded De Gaulle to the title had ever bothered to make a visit to Andorra. But Prince de Gaulle could not resist the temptation to play the role of feudal sovereign, and last week he went off to examine his fief...
...Pentagon is the most formidable redoubt in official Washington. Squat and solid as a feudal fortress, it hunkers in a remote reclaimed Virginia swamp that used to be called Hell's Bottom, across the Potomac River from the spires, colonnades and domes of the federal city. Through its two tiers of subbasements and five aboveground stories, windowless corridors weave like badger warrens. The bastion of America's military establishment not only houses the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a mint of high brass, but is also a beehive of bureaucracy where some...