Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Royalist Serbs shook their heads over Peter's impatient ardor. They remembered the dynasty's unwritten law: while the country is held by an enemy, the ruler must stay in mourning. Peter I had imposed the rule in World War I; he had marched with his Serb troops into exile, observed the ritual of grief, not even shaving, until the day of liberation. Serb émigrés, already uneasy lest Peter II throw in his lot with Tito, now feared that he would further shake his standing among those still loyal to him in the faction-split...
...Burton came out flatly for Tom Herbert, sent his own secretary to Ohio to help run Herbert's campaign for the May 9 primary. Then up popped a third Republican, a second Herbert: grizzled Lieut. Governor Paul Herbert, 54, who has been state American Legion commander and exalted ruler of Columbus Elks. Tom Herbert's friends promptly declared that Paul Herbert's campaign was just a Boss Schorr trick to confuse the voters...
...eyed, barrel-chested roost-ruler of Puerto Rican politics bellowed with pain. This time, for a change, his three big rivals came out with echoes. How could they lose? The issue was everybody's sweetheart...
...politicos were concerned. The issues closest to the hearts and stomachs of the two million hard-pressed people were still the economic and social problems of living jampacked into 3,435 square miles of an unindustrialized, one-crop country. Likeliest candidate for the new governorship was Roost-Ruler Marin, who has maintained his prestige by plugging for social and economic reform...
...social type," a face which may vary from country to country but which, in Europe, "is always topped by a soldier's cap." The day of "religious man" and of "economic man" is dead, says Heiden; it is "intellectual man who is becoming the new ruler...