Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masters are frank to explain that the eight o'clock rule exists specifically to prevent drinking, orgies, and general brawls in the Houses. In an overly protective way, the University has thus assumed the role of a tacit temperance league...
...tougher curriculum is the least and easiest of needed school reforms. The limiting factors loom larger than ever-rule and overrule by small-minded school board members having no single professional qualification, the absence of policy and real authority to cope with overwhelming discipline problems, the license of the lay public in interfering with and abusing school personnel...
...then on, the twinges came hard and fast. Neutral Ireland, to the dismay of neutral India, sought support for an Assembly resolution branding Red China a violator of human rights by its repression in Tibet. Ghana's Ako-Adjei charged that Nyasaland is "a police state under British rule." Belgium's Pierre Wigny announced that his country is "now organizing political democracy" in the riot-swept Congo, and Austria's Dr. Bruno Kreisky warned that if Italy does not grant autonomy to the German-speaking people of the South Tyrol-an area that Italy acquired as World...
...offering Algeria a free choice of three alternatives-independence, integration with France, or home rule under France's wing-France's President Charles de Gaulle had conceded the principle of self-determination for which the rebel Front de Libération Nationale claimed to be fighting. The result was that most of the world could no longer see any reason for further bloodshed in Algeria...
Formal religion in Honduras, the priests admit frankly, is in deplorable disrepair. Priests said that some 85% of all Honduran children are born out of wedlock. Three illegitimate children per father is "the rule," but ten is "not unusual." Dismayed when one group of children met with blank faces his question, "How many Gods are there?", he was downright horrified when the local schoolteacher coached in a stage whisper: "Five...