Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been accused of straining that alliance by his quarrel with Greece over Cyprus. But to a considerable extent, Menderes is a prisoner of popular feeling that Greek rule in Cyprus would be intolerable for the island's Turkish minority -a feeling whose full strength first became apparent with the 1955 Istanbul riots in which hundreds of Greeks were injured and at least $25 million worth of damage done to Greek property. Many Greeks are convinced that Menderes actually encouraged and organized the riots. "The alliance continues but the friendship died," says one Greek official...
...minutes later the plane lifted west over the downtown section of the city. In a few minutes the plane's winking red light disappeared behind the mountains edging the city, and Pérez Jiménez was gone, kited off after five years of one-man rule to exile in the Dominican Republic...
...formulas, he scales it up 50 times (perfectly feasible, he says) and comes out with a rocket that weighs 43,000,800 Ibs. and has 87,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, twice as much as is needed to lift it off the ground. According to a generally accepted rule of thumb, the payload that reaches escape velocity will be one one-thousandth of the starting weight: about 21 tons. This will be enough weight allowance, says Ritchey, to send a crew around the moon in reasonable comfort and safety. When better solid propellants come along (just a matter of time...
Pursuit of the Graf Spee (Powell and Pressburger; Rank) is a good sea story, not very well told; but there are moments when it holds, like a sea shell, the soundIng memory of the waves Britannia used to rule...
Bigelow, a member of the National Committee of Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, plans to set out for Eniwetok on Feb. 9 in his 30-foot ketch, the "Golden Rule." He left New York for Los Angeles last night to outfit the vessel. The former commander of three Navy combat ships hopes his action will arouse the conscience of the American people to the peril of nuclear bomb testing...