Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measure that only recently seemed an election-year impossibility seemed possible: a meaningful law to clean up corruption and thug rule in labor unions...
Cricks & Daffodils. To Alaskan oldtimers, even the weather had augured well for statehood. Not since 1912, when Alaska first became an organized territory and won its first real, if tiny, measure of home rule, had the winter been so mild and the breakup so early. Parkas, mukluks, beaver caps and sealskin coats were thankfully stored away. The ice was gone from the Yukon River, and from the Porcupine, the Koyukuk and the Selawick. Out to Woodchopper, to Steel Creek, Poorman and a hundred other placer gold camps, packed the glint-eyed prospectors in search of a glint in the sand...
...crowding of the planet means authoritarian rule because "the central government is forced to assume additional responsibilities for the general welfare." Wrote Huxley: "It is a pretty safe bet that, twenty years from now, all the world's overpopulated and underdeveloped countries will be under some form of totalitarian rule." While man is cluttering the earth with his birth rate, he is also following a "Will to Order," the fundamental wish for harmony that softens him for the propagandists of authority...
...Board of Overseers, which is now elected by alumni as a result of this action, holds a position similar to that of British royalty: it reigns but does not rule. Approval of faculty appointments by the Overseers is constitutionally required, but there is little likelihood of the Board exercising its nominal veto...
...crew of the ketch "Golden Rule" will attempt a second voyage from Honolulu into the Eniwetok testing grounds tomorrow, as a further protest against continuing nuclear tests. This announcement was made Sunday in Washington, D.C., by William R. Huntington '28, who addressed the 200 "Peace Walkers" who gathered in Washington over the weekend...