Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rule of Thumbs. Soon thousands of petitions, many signed by the thumbprints of illiterates, began pouring in, in praise of Kassem's leadership. Next morning the greatest crowd to assemble since the July revolt jammed Baghdad's Rashid Street for more than a mile chanting, "We are behind you, Karim," and "Long live the solidarity of the army and the people." Government officials privately conceded this massive muster was largely organized, like the anti-Aref demonstrations last month, by Iraq's Communists...
...have to carry the pass which must be signed by some white authority every time a native changes jobs or stays in another town for more than 72 hours. Recently the government of Hendrik Verwoerd, going beyond the black regimentation of his predecessors, decided to enforce more strictly the rule that all South African women over 16 should carry passes. All told, 900,000 "reference books" had been issued, and though the campaign met with protests and occasional violence, it was not until the government tried to extend its policy last month to the big city of Johannesburg, that...
Trouble in the House. Ever since he introduced his Police Duties Execution Bill to cope with the nation's alarming rise in crime and labor violence (TIME, Nov. 3), Kishi has been denounced by the unions and the Socialists for wanting to return to harsh prewar police rule. Last week 180,000 coal miners, 60,000 postal and 50,000 telegraph workers went on strike in protest. Railroad workers forced the cancellation of 150 train schedules, and a brief teachers' walkout closed half the nation's schools. But Kishi's most nettlesome problem...
...lived through 40 years of Communist rule, Pasternak has had to learn to live by the rules in contemporary Russia. He turned down the Nobel Prize; he addressed an eloquent personal plea to Nikita Khrushchev ("To leave my country would be death") against the exile that the party literary hacks led by David Zaslavsky were insistently demanding. And when all this was not enough, he wrote to Pravda...
...could no longer compete with those of the U.S., Russia and China under a haphazard system that prevented some bright children of the poor from reaching responsible jobs rightfully theirs, and fortified doltish sons of the rich and well-born in positions of power. The answer: meritocracy, which is rule by the most talented, determined according to the formula I+E = M (Intelligence plus Effort equals Merit...