Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diagnosis. In Detroit, a Receiving Hospital nurse, evading the rule against giving technical information over the telephone, described a patient's injuries by saying: "He broke what he stands on, sits on and writes with...
...been mayor since 1923 (except for one term). Under the city's home-rule charter, he has become one of the most powerful municipal dictators in the U.S. But last week there were signs that Democrat Stapleton might be unhorsed. For the first time in a decade he had a tough opponent: wealthy, Yale-trained Republican Quigg Newton, a onetime legal secretary to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who had the backing of a growing reform movement...
...Four Zone rule of Germany...
...Palestine Government imposed military rule for the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv and its suburb of Ramat Gan; nearby Petah Tiqva, the oldest modern Jewish community in Palestine; Benet Beraq and numerous communal settlements in the area and the Mea Shearim section of Jerusalem, where 15,000 Jew reside...
...cynical recipient. In the minds of many Americans the poverty of Europe and the self-sufficiency of this country in 1947 do not create a situation where the act of succor would be an unqualified good. On the contrary, the simple act of feeding starving neighbors, a Golden Rule between individuals, becomes a delicate balance of gains and losses when nations go to work. And since American thought and action and even food contributions constitute an unofficial but effective extension of government policy, the question remains-is the food sent to Europe by American students an instruments of understanding...