Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics. No fewer than 200 maharajahs, maharanis and less imposing princelings are standing for office, some of them campaigning in Rolls-Royces and returning exhausted to their palaces, where they live on incomes from the Indian government. The displaced princes are hard to beat; many peasants still remember their rule as the good old days, when life was simpler and they could at least bring their complaints directly to their ruler instead of facing the massive bureaucracy that now engulfs India. Sadly, as Indira Gandhi has discovered, all too many Indians associate their troubles with the democratic system...
...Their rule was broken by the French conquest in the 19th century, but Morocco still claims its former lands, including much of the Algerian Sahara, the northern parts of Senegal and Mali and all of Mauritania. Morocco's territorial claims are plainly unacceptable to its neighbors, who brand them "neo-imperialism," and embarrassing to its friends. For all Washington's interest in protecting Morocco, it cannot afford to give Hassan's army anything more than defensive weapons...
...killed by the millions, far more than the people who have been killed here as a result of repression, in tolerance, and war. My object in life as a lawyer, as a judge and now, is to try to bring some sense into the world community so that a rule of law will operate in the world. That's why I'm where I am. I know of no better way to do this than by trying to bring people together, to accommodate their points of view, to try to arrive at sense, to try to settle their problems...
...worlds of college track were in notable conflict this past weekend, and while Harvard was somewhat distant from the middle of the clash it was close enough to feel the reverberations. The Crimson, as a good rule, sticks to the safer sphere of team meets against other colleges, but on several occasions sends individuals into the big world of open meets where it, like anyone else, is in danger of being caught in politics...
...advantages of German A fade in the second semester, Spaethling pointed out, when students become bored with parroting back phrases. German B's problem is that "you can't put a rule in an empty room," he said. "You have to fill it first with sounds and noises and then introduce a rule to make sense of the jumble...