Word: feudally
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...democracy, economic as well as political. . . . There must be common ownership of great resources . . . because without this we cannot move forward to a new way of life based on service, not self-a way of life as different from the way of 1939 as free capitalism was from the feudal system that preceded it. ... It is essential that you should, at the very minimum, take over the banks, the railways, the mines, the key industries, the engineering industry...
...southeast corner of Texas, along the Gulf of Mexico, lie the King and Kenedy ranches, which in their heyday were bigger than the little feudal domains of Europe.* Eighty-seven years ago, two Rio Grande riverboat captains, Richard King and Mifflin Kenedy, working as partners, founded what was to become the biggest fenced ranch in the U. S. Visitors said that it was 100 miles from Captain King's front gate to the front door of his ranch house. They also said that, when the partners split up, the documents were less like contracts than like treaties between...
...bloody kings and barons. Their technique was simple: enslavement, torture, rape, starvation and murder, plus a fantastic use of company-store methods that had washerwomen in sleazy evening gowns and everybody in debt till the year after eternity. Hundreds of miles up the jungle rivers they fought feudal wars with one another. At the height of the rubber boom in 1909-10, rubber hit a top of $3.06 a pound (present price...
...have made him sicker. It looks contemporary to readers in 1940. "The inner structure of the country was still far from stable. The idea of national unity . . . was at times the concern of the burghers merely and the townsfolk, who formed the main bulwark of the kingdom; the great feudal nobles . . . played at high treason. ... As for the Protestants, they were a still greater danger, a State within the State." Menacing Spain had its fifth columns among Catholics and Huguenots. The Huguenots conspired with the Protestant Germans and with England, the Kremlin of the Reformation...
...Japan was still feudal, backward, timid abroad and slack within. A revolution in that year returned the Emperor Meiji to great prestige and broke ground for the industrial revolution which suddenly made Japan a world economic peril if not power. The last of the Shoguns, Keiki, too international-minded to keep Japan bottled in tradition, resigned and abolished the office. Japan adopted Western institutions: parliaments, premiers, political parties, elections. In recent months Japan has experienced a wave of such intense nationalism and such intense national hardship that sentiment has grown for casting out Christianity...