Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oregon's one-of-a-kind Democratic Senator Wayne Morse roadblocked the Administration's passport bill designed to offset the Supreme Court's ruling that, under existing legislation, the State Department may not deny passports to U.S. citizens on the grounds of beliefs or associations (TIME, June 30). Denouncing it as an "inexcusable attack on constitutional guarantees," Morse stalled the bill in the Foreign Relations Committee under the rule requiring unanimous consent for a committee to meet while the Senate is in session...
...close tabs on the leaders and chiefs of his native land (where the blacks outnumber whites nearly 400 to 1). He constantly denounced the British plan for forming a federation of Nyasaland and the two Rhodesias (where there are more white settlers), insisted that the Colonial Office continue to rule Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland until the two countries were ready for independence. When the federation went through, Banda sold his practice, moved to the Gold Coast, to Kumasi in the land of the Ashanti. There he became a friend of Kwame Nkrumah and an admirer of Ghana's fight...
...Japan compiled in the 8th century) credits Emperor Suinin (29 B.C.-A.D. 70) with substituting clay figures for the human retainers who customarily had been buried alive with their masters. Historians scuttled this colorful explanation by discovering that Haniwa figures were not made until centuries after inin's rule. Best bet is that the Haniwa figures, along with houses and boats, were meant to console the dead. Says Expert Fumio Miki: "We can only surmise from the data on hand that they were grave decorations, much in the manner of flower wreaths used today in Japan...
...winner of each match must file the results at Grays 1. Players are cautioned that failure to comply with this rule will warrant dismissal from the tournament. Students must arrange hours in the early rounds and bring a new can of tennis balls to their first match. Scores will be posted in Grays Hall and the results will be published in the Summer News...
...Italia! Viva la Francia!" To show his love of Italy, Louis Napoleon would have liked to pardon him; instead, thirteen months later, he led an army of 200,000 over the Alps and defeated the Austrians at Solferino and Magenta. It was the beginning of the end of foreign rule in Italy. The new Kingdom of Italy, established seven years later, would have to decide whether Felice Orsini was a hero or an inept killer, or both. As to his bomb-throwing predilections, he might have answered with the famous line Empress Eugénie is said to have spoken...