Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foolish Pleasure was more than normal in that one, tying Bold Ruler's longstanding record time of 1:48 4/5 for the nine furlongs. Just as important, however, was the Duck's vault into stardom, as he was just a head behind when the two went under the finish wire...
...KAFKA's short stories, an explorer arrives in a small, poor, and remote country, garrisoned by soldiers who wear uniforms that are much too hot but that serve as reminders of a faraway home. The ruler of this country has invented an ingenious method of punishment, a sort of harrow that cuts the text of a broken law into the lawbreaker's flesh. The script is so intricate that it takes a full twelve hours before the lawbreaker is dead...
...generalissimo, in severely declining health, did not even appear in public during the final two years of his life. But until the end, Chiang held the title of President of the Republic of China, insisting that he was the sole legitimate ruler of the entire country. Even after Taiwan's expulsion from the U.N. in 1971, Chiang rejected all attempts at compromise. As long as he was alive, recovery of the mainland stood, in his words, as "the inalterable national purpose." As the world embarked on the quest for a new relationship with his enemy in Peking, Chiang never...
After a remarkable reign, Faisal died at a time when his prestige throughout the Arab world was at a peak. In the past, many Arab radicals had savagely attacked him as a reactionary, tyrannical ruler of a feudal desert kingdom. But all that changed after Faisal dramatically imposed the oil embargo in October 1973. The Cairo daily al Gumhouriya, once a vehicle for anti-Faisal propaganda campaigns, observed last week: "The Arab nation can never forget his heroic stand during the October war, or that he launched the oil battle in support of the fighters in Sinai and the Golan...
Muhammad's recent respectability came not from the creed of his "Black Muslims," as they are known to outsiders, but from his "do for self philosophy, which generated black enterprise. As much captain of industry as Messenger of Allah, Muhammad was the supreme ruler not only over 76 temples and some 50,000 to 100,000 disciples, but also over some 15,000 acres of farmland and a complex of small businesses that range from pin-neat restaurants to stores to a 500,000-circulation newspaper. Some estimate the worth of the Nation of Islam's business empire...