Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provoked rioting that killed 22 people. A fortnight ago, when President Ibanez moved to slash government expenses by reducing the subsidies that held down the price of sugar and tea, the government accompanied the order with special instructions to the police on how to quell any rioting that might follow: sound a bugle three times at two-minute intervals, then break up the mobs by any means necessary...
Someone should tell Chief Justice Warren that man No. 3 ("Sir, I am building a temple") must follow the designer's blue prints exactly, or the temple will turn into a Tower of Babel...
Salvation in a Shed. There was only one instinct, one Air Force rule of survival, to follow: go downstream. And down Pilot Steeves struggled day after day-crawling, hobbling and sliding through snow-filled gorges, sleeping in hollow logs and under sheltering rocks. In 18 days he went 25 miles, finally got to Simpson Meadow (elevation: 6,000 ft.). There, crazed from hunger, he stumbled on a park ranger's storage shed. Breaking in, he found more matches, fishhooks, a map of the area and a tiny store of provisions-a can of beans, hash, tomatoes. He wrapped himself...
...business: the Dominican Republic. His basic maneuver is to squeeze other investors, including those from the U.S., out of profitable businesses. He sends his representatives to make what is often a scrupulously fair offer; the victims accept rather than face the tax and regulatory troubles that might follow refusal. Trujillo's cement, beer and electric-power monopolies were all acquired in this fashion, and he has nearly completed control of the island's biggest business-sugar. Most recent big U.S. firm to get out: the West Indies Sugar Co., for $36 million...
Attending the opening of a scientific display in Amsterdam, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands stopped before a complicated calculating machine. The operator informed her that the gadget could follow instructions, but could not think. Thinking hard herself, Her Majesty was silent, then delivered the considered royal opinion: "Fortunate...