Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return to command, Ky was confident that Tri Quang would lie low and let Saigon settle the matter among soldiers. Instead, Tri Quang seized on the spark of unrest over Thi's ousting to fan the flames of a Buddhist call for a return to civilian rule...
...which many Britons found darker even than the days of the 1940 Blitz. Angry thousands massed among the pigeons beneath Nelson's glowering statue in Trafalgar Square to protest an aging, ailing Tory Prime Minister's final, futile attempt to assert Britannia's right to rule the waves. That same year produced the first explosive act of rebellion: John Osborne's corrosive drama, Look Back in Anger...
...Harvard requires only an introduction, not fluency, and if this instruction may lead to further study there is no reason why it should not be considered as important as introduction to Natural Sciences or Humanities. What is wrong with the language requirement, more often than not, is not the rule itself but the attitude of the students in fulfilling it. The language requirement should be kept...
...rule requiring applicants to be 21 years old by next September will be strictly enforced, cutting down the actual number of people who will be drawing...
Because of the fundamentally quantitative nature of the area, the concentrator will find himself most concerned with technical courses. As a rule, out-of-class work takes the form of problem solving. This is the heart of the subject, and it takes a good deal more time than might be spent in other concentrations to achieve the same grades...