Word: feudally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabat airport, Mohammed V stepped from a life of luxurious discontent into a chaos caused by the abdication of the French and a vying among the Moroccans themselves, some to retain their feudal fiefs, others to spread violence born of ignorance, a few to seek a difficult adjustment between ancient ways, present misery and future progress. Glowed one Moroccan: "The Sultan's exile was a great thing. We've achieved a political and national consciousness we weren't able to build in 40 years." But Morocco, unlike Tunisia, has few modern institutions of government, and Mohammed...
Seydou decided to get some service out of the ancient feudal officers at his father's court. The royal Master of Ceremonies was put in charge of street cleaning; the Keeper of the Weapons was made health commissioner; the general of the nonexistent army was made chief truant officer. With French government help, a new industry, coffee culture, was introduced, and-in direct answer to the newly literate demands of the Sultan's people-a postal service was begun. "With tradition as the father and modernization, brought by the French, as mother," said the Sultan, "we shall produce...
...struck three heavy blows last week against the Hoa Hao (pronounced Wha-How), the second of his country's rebellious warlord sects. Diem sent in two nationalist infantry divisions and four amphibious groups against the Hoa Hao, a rowdy private army of dissident Buddhists who run their own feudal entity-and squeeze the peasants with taxes-in rice-rich western Viet Nam. Premier Diem first offered the Hoa Hao a chance to integrate themselves into the national army and form a peaceful political party, but the Hoa Hao replied by raiding Diem's outposts and blowing up bridges...
Next night, the formal Nov. 5 opening will present Beethoven's Fidelia, with tickets at a feudal 5,000-schilling ($192) top, to be followed by another Don Giovanni the night after that. Last week singers were rehearsing on the new stage, gilders were applying the last touches of gold leaf to the auditorium, and the occupying powers seemed to be doing their best to comply with Chancellor Julius Raab's special plea: please leave the country before opening night...
...kids. Burglary. Rape. Murder. The kids run in gangs. The Scarlet Cavaliers. The Shining Knights. They manufacture pistols, carry switchknives and use them. They are loyal to nothing except the gang. They rarely tell on each other. The reason for all this might be larger than children. In feudal law everyone was responsible for something. Every, member of the family was responsible for every other member. In the village this same responsibility obtained. If a child committed a crime his whole family was affected, even punished, and even if his father and mother were not punished they were dishonored...