Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover) Rule, Brit...
Britannya rule the waves...
...length and her towering height dwarfed the battered buildings of the blitzed waterfront. The tugs chugged alongside. Antlike figures made fast the tossed lines. The town band, percussive and perspiring, panted with bravura through the Merry Widow Waltz, Pomp & Circumstance, and struck up the great invocation: Rule, Britannia! Through the mist in some watchers' eyes the colossal Cunarder wavered moltenly. Even Colonel Blimp blew his nose with a Tory blast prolonged by the boom of the great ship's sirens, which are pitched two octaves below middle A and audible ten miles across the downs. On decks...
Before the war, the Hudson's Bay Company sold extensively in Britain. But during the dollar shortage Sir Patrick laid down a rule: export for dollars. Today, not a single Hudson's Bay blanket (made in Yorkshire) can be sold in Britain...
...rule that only Senators may speak to the Senate was set aside. President pro tem Arthur Vandenberg recognized "the ex-Senator from Missouri for five minutes." Said Harry Truman: "I sometimes get homesick for this seat. I spent what I think were the best ten years of my life in the Senate." It was a pleasant...