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...sense of the line is almost the exact opposite of this. The phrase 'lesser breeds' refers almost certainly to the Germans, and especially the pan-German writers, who are 'without the Law' in the sense of being lawless, not in the sense of being powerless. The whole poem is a denunciation of power politics...
Whether or not the new government was sincere in its vows to hold the nation together, Nigerians were taking no chances. With threats of secession coming from all regions except the powerless Middle West, the nation's trains, planes and highways were suddenly crowded with Hausas and Fulani fleeing from the South and Ibos and Yorubas deserting the North. Within a matter of weeks, they figured, they might well be caught behind enemy lines...
Suddenly he was gone again. Two Chinese diplomats had loaded him onto a hospital stretcher and carried him to the Chinese mission, where police were powerless to enter. The Dutch Foreign Ministry immediately protested the kidnaping, but got only silence from Charge d'Affaires Li En-chiu. After two days, the protests gave way to an ultimatum that the Chinese release their prisoner. Too late. "I am afraid I cannot help you," Li declared. "Unfortunately, Mr. Hsu died in my office...
Roller's decision, said the court, was contradictory and "inconsistent." Baseball might be a monopoly, but it is a nationwide monopoly; therefore Wisconsin is "powerless" to make the sport subject to its state antitrust law. Besides, continued the Supreme Court, to order the Braves back from Atlanta would be to correct one ill with another: "such an outcome would maintain a monopoly at the expense of Atlanta...
...will have to complete a series of increasingly ambitious experimental flights. In the future, a version of the M2-F2 will be equipped with an X-15 rocket plane engine and sent to an altitude of 80,000 ft. at a speed of 1,200 m.p.h. before starting its powerless descent. As more funds become available, a piloted lifting body with a heat shield will be launched from Cape Kennedy atop a Titan rocket. It will make a suborbital flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, then re-enter the atmosphere for a controlled landing at Edwards Air Force...