Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headlong exuberance, had waited 51 months to make his coup. When it came, it was as unexpected and as ruthless as anything Stalin had done. But there was a world of difference in Khrushchev's approach to power. Whereas Stalin, utterly contemptuous of party or world opinion, had purged the army and party structure wide and deep, Khrushchev had gone to great lengths to establish support among the party rank and file, particularly in the provinces, and to make himself a popular figure with peasants and workers. He had relaxed the police control, freed many prisoners; he had associated...
Attending the opening of a scientific display in Amsterdam, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands stopped before a complicated calculating machine. The operator informed her that the gadget could follow instructions, but could not think. Thinking hard herself, Her Majesty was silent, then delivered the considered royal opinion: "Fortunate...
...funds are concerned, he expressed the opinion that nothing stands in the way of affording quality. "I believe education is in the driver's seat...
Straight Battle. Coke is still constantly cited by lawyers and judges on both sides of the Atlantic, e.g., in Chief Justice Earl Warren's majority opinion on the Watkins case (TIME, July i). The complexities and oddities of Coke's Commentary upon Littleton helped make a lawyer of Patrick Henry in six weeks, drove Daniel Webster to "despair," and got from Thomas Jefferson the tribute of being the law's "universal elementary book...
...longer the "King's watchdog," he became the watchdog of the common law. The historic Coke maxims began to roll out. "No man may be punished for his thoughts"; "And if every man should be examined upon his oath, what opinion he holdeth concerning any point of religion, he is not bound to answer . . ."; "When an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law will. . . adjudge such Act to be void...