Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history; that if they only understood how much conditions have improved since the Great Depression, they would be less dyspeptic today; that if they could feel the reality of the cold war of a decade ago, they would be less prone to pacifism; that if they would acknowledge the rule of law's value in nurturing progress, they might be less hostile to traditional forms; that anarchy can be a harsher master than authority...
Bobby himself notes with wry pride: "I am the only candidate opposed by both big business and big labor." Many foreign diplomats, especially Asians, fear that he might lead the U.S. back to isolationism. Orthodox politicians often cannot forgive his hauteur, and recoil at what seems to be his rule-or-ruin approach. He is unpredictable, uncontrollable. Would he attack agricultural subsidies? Farm groups wonder. How far beyond Medicare would he go in expanding Government medical services? Organized medicine worries. He speaks for tax reform and attacks the oil-depletion allowance, as others have for years, but Bobby might just...
...McCarthy does not rule out the possibility of a coalition with Humphrey: "It all depends on the progress of the peace talks, on Humphrey's positions, and on the progress of the campaign." Just how many delegates McCarthy would actually be able to transfer, however, is uncertain. If he fares poorly on the first ballot in Chicago, his control over those bound to him either by loyalty or law could disintegrate completely...
...country where monopoly has never aroused much concern, the government can be expected to back the trend. Japan's Fair Trade Commission, which was set up under vague antitrust laws enacted at U.S. behest during the Occupation, has yet to rule against any major merger...
...lighted cerulean water becomes his Styx. At one poolside, supposed friends needle him with cruel remarks about his wife and daughters. A stop at another leads him into a party where he finds a piece of family furniture he cannot recall selling. A quarrel with his ex-mistress (Janice Rule) at yet another diving board reveals that he has no memory of their final bitter scene that took place years before. At last, weary and shivering, he finds himself shaking the locked, rusty gate to his house as the rain streaks down. He breaks it, and confronts the dreadful reality...