Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackie spoke to his teammates only when spoken to, and his replies were brief and polite. He had long ago made it a rule to "let them make the first move." Soon after the season opened, the Montreal players were with him. It took longer to win over some of the fans, and the other players in the League...
Hardy Mrs. Craig had asked Navy permission to return to the U.S. with the presidential party and the male reporters aboard the battleship Missouri. The Navy, which has a stern rule against carrying women aboard warships-even grandmothers-because there are no toilet facilities for them, promptly passed the buck to the White House. But Mrs. Craig was well aware that the Navy had provided facilities for Mrs. Truman, Margaret and a maid in the austere privacy of the captain's island...
...practical rewards she was enjoying in Moscow last week were earned by her defense of Russia's use of the veto, her hostility to Britain and occasional cracks at the U.S. (Sample: "Though it is claimed that democracy is the rule of the day in America, actually there is no voice of the people at the helm of affairs.") While other nations were still waiting to be allotted suitable Embassy quarters in the crowded capital, newly arrived Mrs. Pandit went straight to the head of the diplomatic queue, was promptly given a well-kept brick residence by Soviet officials...
...communal hatred had been boiling up into slaughter. A previous climax came last spring when hundreds were killed in riots there (TIME, March 17). In mid-August the partition of the Punjab between India and Pakistan left 1.6 of the 3.8 million Sikhs in the province under Moslem rule; at least twice as many Moslems remained on the Indian side of the border in a new East Punjab state...
...ordered: that the board institute an investigation to determine whether provisions for the transportation without additional charge of one pair of skis in addition to 40 lbs. of free baggage allowed each passenger, contained in Paragraph (f) (5) (a) of Rule 16 appearing on fourth revised Page 18 of Redfern's Local and Joint Passenger Rules Tariff No. PR-2, CAB No. 12, may be unjust or unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or unduly prejudicial, and whether and to what extent the board shall take further action with respect thereto...