Word: instruct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas retaliated by announcing that as soon as McNab vacated the premises Saskatchewan would convert Regina's $110,000 Government House into a home for the aged or for delinquent girls.* Then he had another idea: Let Ottawa instruct Saskatchewan's Chief Justice to perform the Lieutenant Governor's functions...
...Hartford. He held a lengthy press conference, spoke at a G.O.P. luncheon and dinner, met most of the members of Connecticut's unpledged delegation to the national convention. When the news came in that Indiana's G.O.P. convention had refused to instruct its delegates for Tom Dewey, John Bricker said: "They won't be stampeded. The convention must be a deliberative...
Reason given: Allied commanders should feel free to instruct, exhort or inspire their men without fear of public reverberations. The tactful British did not connect their request in any way with Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s sound-off at a soldiers' club (TIME, May 8), in which he discussed rulership of the postwar world...
...after the former Dalai Lama died, Tanchu was chosen to be the ruler of 3,000,000 Tibetans, and brought to Lhasa from his native village (TIME, Feb. 26, 1940). Fifteen doting relatives-parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts-accompanied him and still attend him. Ten teachers, all venerated lamas, instruct him in his public role...
Bland Explanation. Meantime Reuters gave a bland and cynical explanation for its beat: that its Lisbon office, technically not bound by any Allied restrictions, had merely demonstrated "spontaneous journalistic enterprise." This seemed to be adding insult to injury. Perhaps U.S. news services would take the cue and instruct their Lisbon and other offices to show a little "spontaneous American enterprise" hereafter...