Word: inheritance
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...atomic colossi of Russia and the U.S., no isolated European country can make its voice heard. It is necessary to weave between the countries of Western Europe the bonds that will prevent Germany from turning to the East." Because nobody wanted to kick out Guy Mollet and inherit the mess in Algeria, Mollet...
After Mendès' resignation, Mollet countered by scheduling a debate and vote of confidence on his government's policies. He is given a good chance of surviving, largely because no one else is eager to inherit so unpromising a situation...
...reforms of the whole Hindu social code, but the bill was too sweeping to get by. Since then Nehru has been picking away at his reforms piecemeal. Last year he eased the lot of India's wives in a reformed marriage act. Last week he introduced a Hindu inheritance act designed to give wives, widows and daughters the right to inherit family property and to dispose of it in any way they like...
...Murdoch writes in the comic intellectual tradition of the early Aldous Huxley, but now the sad young Huxleymen of the '20s have grown up to be desperately dim middle-aged men in dim jobs. Murdoch's subjects are transfixed at a moment in history when those who inherit a great tradition are not enriched and strengthened by the past, but mocked and enfeebled...
...hopin' it will rain, because there was a time they used to compare this country with the limestone country in Kentucky. There was a time you couldn't buy land in Menard County. The only way to get it was to marry it or inherit it. So we've got to stick with it. We're the backbone of the ranchers. We're not the Texans who got rich on oil. And we never had the big spreads of land. But we're not sharecroppers, either. In normal years, a man could make between...