Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imam. Some of the headlines made it appear that the British were once again shooting up primitive desert tribesmen, defending a despotic ruler and creating a "second Suez." But in fact this was a case when the British were going to the help of a Sultan who, in the London Economist's words, "is not contending against an electorate of the future-a nationalist movement of young and educated men-but against a reactionary rival." The British showed their might almost hesitantly. They acted in Oman, fearing that if they did not, their position would be weakened along...
...prosperity and surface stability, but no sound political philosophy, organization or heir apparent. In the three years since his rag-tag army and Nicaragua-based air force (six F-47s) forced out the Red-led regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Castillo was the country's undisputed ruler-shy and diffident in manner, often indecisive as an administrator, but capable on occasion of moving with stern severity...
...from the pool, primly wrote home that gifts of clothes and candy might further harm Carol's standing. Cried the father: "It's farcical-I've been giving Carol food and clothes for twelve years!" But after a chat with Regional Swimming Official Harry Gibbons, Rigid-Ruler Florence relented, ruled that Carol was still an amateur after...
Middle-Class Sultan. This is the kind of wealth His Highness Sultan Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin, He Who Is Made Lord of Brunei, wants for his nation. Unlike some of his Islamic counterparts in the Middle East, Brunei's unpretentious ruler, who followed his profligate brother to the throne in 1950, is content to live his own life surrounded by middle-class comforts, with a single wife and eight children in a simple, tasteful villa that would go unnoticed in a better U.S. suburb. "I want," he says a little stiffly, "to direct all my energies and resources toward...
...horizontal (masculine and feminine) strokes, make asymmetry his basic rule, keep the painting flat on the surface. "When one does not represent things, a place remains for the Divine," he jotted in his notebook. He later simplified his palette to primary red, blue and yellow, then, working with charcoal, ruler and strips of paper, bound and balanced the areas with a grid of black lines that became his trademark...