Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entering British India, varying from eleven to 21 guns. There are some 400 other princes not entitled to be called "Your Highness" because they rate less than eleven guns; on the other hand, those that rate less than eleven guns are not entitled to be called "Your Highness." This rule was made by the British, who have a genius for government...
...Manhattan radio date this week. Said Randolph: when he agreed to criticize Communist Earl Browder's new book (War or Peace with Russia?) on the air, he hadn't realized "that an American Communist would also be taking part. ... I have long made it a rule to have no association whatever with American, Canadian, or British Communists." The American Communist who would take part: expelled Comrade Browder...
...plotting against his son's succession. Half mad with grief and self-doubt after his wife's murder and his best friend's treachery, Ivan abdicates. At the end of the picture, by request of the common people, he returns to the throne, confident of "everlasting rule." As Eisenstein tells it, this vindication of Ivan becomes, by many parallels, a vindication of Stalin and his regime...
...Though I am very far from being as clever and well informed as people think, I am not below the average in political capacity ... I am no more fit to rule millions of men than a boy of twelve. Physically I am failing: my senses, my locomotive powers, my memory, are decaying at a rate which threatens to make a Struldbrug* of me if I persist in living; yet my mind still feels capable of growth . . . [if] the Life Force would give me a body as durable as my mind ... I might begin a political career as a junior civil...
...deficiency brought on dysentery, influenza, beriberi and several other diseases, mostly untreated. When the guards weren't slapping faces in anger, they were patting bottoms lewdly. Yet some of those same guards would unexpectedly share their food with the children, permit wives to see husbands in defiance of rules, even assist in smuggling provisions and medicines from friendly Asiatics on the mainland. But the kindnesses were whimsical, starvation and brutality the rule...