Word: governing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rules which presently govern the Romance Languages, German and Linguistics concentrators will also restrict the History and Literature students...
...immoderate use of tobacco threatens the health." But although Presi dent Charles de Gaulle (once a two-pack-a-day man) long ago swore off smoking on doctors' advice, the toxicologist's speech, unlike the rest of the festivities, was not broadcast over France's govern ment-owned radio-TV network. For to bacco has been a government monopoly in France since 1811, when Napoleon noticed an ostentatiously bejeweled woman at a Tuileries ball and then discovered that her husband was a tobacco merchant. That very night. Napoleon is supposed to have signed the decree nationalizing...
...after a while, the prince himself became discouraged. "What is the point of sending children to school?" he asked. "We are backward, and whatever we do shall never rise to the level of other peoples. Anyway, an educated population is difficult to govern." He grew increasingly impervious to Western influence, despite his summer visits to the royal villa at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera. By the time he took the throne in 1959, after the old King died at 74, Savang Vatthana seemed to have sunk into a torpor that could not be shaken by the fast...
Another emotional problem arises because traditional standards of conduct are often inadequate to govern relations between college men and women today...
...manner befitting such a tradition-hallowed affair. The small children roaming the ringside heard no profanity, and no liquor was served inside the arena. As a sign over the door reminded the patrons of the best cockfighting in the U.S.: "Rules of this club are the simple rules that govern ladies and gentlemen everywhere...