Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious fact is that this very language was provoked by a strong movement in this country to aid the establishment of a democratic government in Greece, which was then under the rule of an "imperialistic" power named Turkey. Monroe wanted to offer some definite aid to the Greek rebels of 1823-but John Quincy Adams (the General Marshall of that day) persuaded...
...everywhere, the Russians rule through political terror. A refugee's testimony: "I know it sounds funny to you, but the fact is that to us who escaped to Poland, that country today seems, by comparison, the most wonderfully free, democratic country you could dream of. This is how the MGB (formerly the NKVD) works in our cities: every block is controlled by an MGB boss with his office on the premises. Every house has an MGB informer. The informers control each other. One of them goes to the other and says: 'It's too bad about...
Skin-Saving.. "How a prince answers the big political question," cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Neville, "depends on whether he is a big 21-gun-salute* prince who thinks that when the British leave he can rule his own roost alone, whether he is a pro-Pakistan prince, whether he is an anti-Pakistan prince, or whether he is the type of prince who believes that Congress is going to be all-powerful in the new India and hence thinks he had better get on the Congress bandwagon...
...Normally electees from the Junior and Senior Classes would be '48 and '49 members. The confused Class system resulting from the war forces as temporarily to abandon this eligibility rule and govern nominees as well as voters by whether they have two or four regular terms remaining in College," Axt said...
Religion is not the "brotherhood of man." The Golden Rule is a necessary but not a sufficient description of man's religious duty. Although almost all the great religions prescribe some variant of the Golden Rule, none of them relies on it exclusively. In the four Gospels Jesus speaks several times about the brotherhood of man, but he speaks of the Fatherhood of God just three times as often. Without that Fatherhood, man's efforts to live by the light of altruism have always landed him in its dark opposite...