Word: governed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making the most of its brief freedom (controls will be clamped on again after the election), the opposition newspaper Republica addressed the dictator thus: "Senhor Salazar, the world will not tolerate the direction in which you are walking against the will of the nation. You govern by force and you call it right. You are the only free man in Portugal...
...likely to be on the edge of his seat. The ending itself is in the best Odets fashion and couldn't have been more powerful had Leo the lion devoured the hero on stage. If Mr. Odets primary purpose was to expose, in his own way, the minds that govern the film industry, he has succeeded. Marcus Hoff, of Hoff Interprises, and his henchman, very ably played by J. Edward Bromberg and Paul McGrath respectively, are two characters not likely to be forgotten...
...London, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Benelux trio are now meeting for the purpose of creating an international authority to govern distribution of the Ruhr's coal, iron, and steel production. But the authority will be useless with the Ruhr owned and operated by the German government-to-be. Future allocations will depend entirely on the policy of that government...
Philosopher Bertram Russell, 76, who reluctantly renounced pacifism in 1941, reluctantly warned a London conference of students and teachers that the West must either fight Russia before she has the atom bomb, or "lie down and say 'Come and govern us, have concentration camps, do as you like.' " It would be a sad decision, he admitted, because "there are only two independent states in the world today-Britain is not one of them. After an atomic war only one would be left...
...with Industry. The most spectacular rises in population have come with industrialization. The "laws" which govern it are not yet well understood, but the early stages of industrialization, in any country, seem to be associated with a moderate rise in the birth rate, a sharp fall in the death rate and a consequent jump in population...