Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shah is fighting not only corruption and graft but the deadening hand of Iran's "thousand families" who are absentee owners of 70% of the land. The Shah himself, as the nation's biggest single landowner (2,500,000 acres), has shown the way by distributing his vast farm properties to the peasants of about 300 of his villages. But the thousand families are cool to land reform. Even worse, landlords seldom reinvest their profits in upgrading the soil. Tenants, who can usually be dispossessed at will with no compensation for any improvements they have made, are understandably...
...Great," who rose from army noncom to the throne of the King of Kings and who showed his displeasure immediately, as when he once dragged a losing jockey from his horse and publicly kicked him in the belly. The young Shah knows that Iran needs a strong, tough hand like his father's, but he cannot bring himself to behave that way. He used to be sensitive to the fact that though his title was old, his dynasty had begun only with his father. But increasingly the Shah has shown a self-confidence to match his character and intelligence...
...betrothed to the heir to the Japanese throne, had come with her parents to pay a ceremonial call on the young prince. After the usual formalities, the prince's tutor delicately suggested that the older generation withdraw to the garden. Gaily the prince seized Michiko's hand and led her on an inspection tour of the palace. For the first time since they met on a tennis court 15 months ago, Crown Prince Akihito and his fiancée found themselves alone...
Strongman Porfirio Diáz took over after Juárez in 1876, ruled with an iron hand, justifying his protective dictatorship by sighing, "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the U.S." He was overthrown by the 1910 Revolution, which became the almost mystical source of reform-land, church, social, economic-and is still the major influence in Mexico's national life today. It was led by Francisco Madero, a 5-ft. 2-in. vegetarian, teetotaler and spiritualist with brown beard, piping voice and a nervous tic. Madero was supported by the backwoods guerrillas Francisco...
...Modernist Roger Sessions. He arrived on Broadway "purely by fluke" when he persuaded Melvyn Douglas to let him write new incidental music for a Broadway production of Sean O'Casey's Within the Gates. That was in 1934, and since then Composer-Conductor Engel has had a hand in such diverse Broadway shows as Maurice Evans' Hamlet, The Trojan Women, A Streetcar Named Desire (for which he wrote incidental music), The Consul and Li'l Abner (for which he served as pit conductor...