Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sympathetic superior general is superb, and she adds a warm human element to the austerity of the film. Peter Finch, the atheistic doctor in the Congo, rattles Sister Luke with his outbursts that question her vocation to be a nun and needle her about her religion and convent rule. Peter Finch and Dean Jagger as Sister Luke's surgeon-father are both excellent contrasting contributors to the nun's saga...
...Israel, where no party has a majority and the government must rule by coalition, the junior partners usually find an issue to quarrel about shortly before election time in order to break away from the coalition and be free to campaign on their own. Last week, as the days drew nearer to the November elections, two left-wing parties in Premier David Ben-Gurion's four-party coalition found a really emotion-charged issue to fight about: Israel's deal to sell $3,300,000 worth of grenade launchers to West Germany (TIME, July 6). This...
...contract, he said: "I have learned one thing from the appalling atrocities of Hitler: to make every possible effort to prevent such a disaster falling on the people of Israel. For although Hitler was defeated, his disciples in the Middle East still live, and it is they who rule in the Arab countries that surround us. Israel does not belong to any alliance. We, more than any other nation, need friends. The Germany of today is not the Germany of Hitler, and I refer to the geopolitical transformation that has taken place in Western Europe. It is our duty...
South Viet Nam, under President Ngo Dinh Diem, an ascetic Roman Catholic, four years ago closed down its opium dens, which had been legal throughout the years of French rule, and shut up some of the fanciest whorehouses in the Far East. So successful has the government been that there is only a small clandestine traffic in opium across its borders...
...Strunk loved the clear, the brief, the bold.'' White writes, "and his book is clear, brief, bold." It consists mainly of eight rules of usage, ten principles of composition, a few matters of form. Each Strunk command (Do not break sentences in two. Use the active voice. Omit needless words) is followed by a short, barking essay and examples in parallel columns-right v. wrong, timid v. bold, ragged v. trim. Strunk had pet usages; he insisted on forming the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's regardless of the final consonant (Rule 1 ). It would have...