Word: govern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lose states rights which safeguard the most precious of all human rights--the right to control and govern ourselves at home--the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--then may we ask, "For what is a man profiteth if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul...
...Saints call all non-Mormons) would have had a good word to say about one of the prophets, for non-Mormons have often been treated harshly. McKay (rhymes with eye) has actively encouraged toleration for others. He has also relaxed a few of the stiff rules that govern the life of his followers New converts, for example, no longer have to give up smoking-although they are often assigned to jobs as Boy Scout leaders or Sunday school teachers, where the need to give good example constrains them to abandon the habit voluntarily...
...four-year chief executive is of little use without an efficient legislature. Thus Peabody's proposals to grant extensive home rule to the cities and towns and to limit the legislative session to six months are vital to effective state government. Under the existing system in which the State administers many purely local functions, the General Court is deluged by a mass of trvial bills at each session. Legislators have neither the time nor the information to make wise decisions on most local problems, and although the General Court must have the authority to curb abuses of local power...
While fate, said Schrade, is that which "is sent to man from above" to govern "all vicissitudes of life," it derives both from the artist's temperament and his historical situation. Any personal best can give rise to tragic expressionism, but fate limits the use of such individuality because it dictates to each age a "constellation from which the tragic is to be inferred...
...anyone would want to govern Michigan is a wonder. The state has deep-seated economic problems, and it is riven by inter-and intraparty bitterness of a sort to make any Governor look bad. Yet there is never a dearth of aspirants, and this year is far, far from being an exception to that rule. The contenders: Incumbent Democrat John Swainson, 37, and Republican George Romney, 55, who resigned from his $150,000-a-year job as the head of American Motors to seek public office...