Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps the most remarkable aspect of SAC's reply to Khrushchev is that SAC has also fashioned a safety catch for its hair trigger, a crucial check upon the deterrent power, so as to rule out the minuscule but horrifying chance that World War III might explode out of one aircrew's accident or aberration or miscalculation. Name of SAC's safety catch: Fail Safe...
...trying to say: let's try to be reasonable," replied Dwight Eisenhower when a reporter asked about antirecession spending. "Let's try to use some common sense and not just get a Sputnik attitude about everything." All last week the President kept a tight grip on the rule of reasonableness, surprised staff and Congress alike by using it to administer a sharp rap across the knuckles here, a threat there, to keep politically fired recession fears from getting out of bounds...
Omen of Hope. Born just one week after the Nazis invaded her country and named after the great 14th century queen who extended her rule throughout Scandinavia, Margrethe's birth was regarded during the somber days of the occupation as an omen of brighter times to come. She grew into a shy but fun-loving little girl who, when asked what she liked best about the private school she was attending, blurted: "All that milling around and pushing and shoving in the corridors...
Both Whitehead and his opponent of the white-supremacy Dominion Party-Jack Pain, a bluff and genial Bulawayo accountant and city council member-left no doubt that they wanted to maintain the white man's unfettered rule over the blacks, who outnumbered them 13 to 1 in Southern Rhodesia. But White Supremacist Pain argued in the campaign that the United Federal Party, even with Todd gone, was pushing partnership "too far and too fast." Betting odds favored Whitehead 4 to 1, but when the votes of Hillside were tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead...
This requirement of "hard currency" repayment has proven a stumbling block to many nations seeking loans; the rule means, in effect, that only the richer of the underdeveloped countries--those having large dollar reserves--have been able to borrow freely. Unilateral loans, granted by the United States, are of course repayable in dollars...