Word: feudally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gurion and Israel, are miserable. I'm not a Jew, but I know something about the Jews and what they have suffered, especially during the Nazi period. How can anybody in full possession of his faculties blame the Israelis for defending themselves against new dictators like Nasser, feudal Arab sheiks and oil kings...
...year after the Reds took over China, the New Marriage Law was promulgated: the old "arbitrary and compulsory feudal system of marriage, based on the superiority of men over women, shall be abolished." Marriages in the future were to be arranged only "by the parties concerned ... of their own free will," said the new law. It also promised economic freedom and equality for all women, divorces "issued without delay" at the request of either party (except the husbands of pregnant women), an end to discrimination against bastardy, and the protection of illegitimate children. Just to make everything absolutely clear...
...supplies from the north. The answer lay in regional organization, and by 1937 Beck had set up an eleven-state Western Teamsters Conference, with himself as chairman. The Teamsters' conference system is Beck's proudest organizational achievement, and he has expanded it to establish feudal baronies in the East, South and Central States...
Dolls for Britain. Christian Dior is a product of three centuries of elegance that run back to the reign of King Louis XIV. To control the restive feudal nobles he subdued, Louis built the huge palace at Versailles, turned it into a vast gilded cage where the aristocracy, cut off from their lands, were reduced to an idle group waiting on the Sun King. In that sumptuous court, elegance became an obsession, and Louis put the obsession to use. He organized Paris' dressmakers and tailors. Two life-sized dolls, dressed in the latest fashions, were shipped monthly across...
...world he once spurned. Duncan Welsh had spent seven years as a newspaperman in Northern cities and lost an eye, a wife and all stomach for his job. He heads back to his father's Tennessee valley farm to root himself in the pieties of nature, kinsmen, and feudal loyalties from which he feels he was torn by anonymous city dwelling. But in the bustling regional ferment to which Duncan returns, his attitudes seem romantic, antisocial and outmoded. The powerful dramatic irony of The Innocent is that its hero seeks serenity and is driven to violence, strives for communion...