Word: ruling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that he can defeat the Communists in the field, did not expect a Red yes to his proposal. He did hope that his national unity gesture would lure some of the minuscule parties of the wavering Democratic League into the Assembly sessions, thus reduce the appearance of one-party rule in China...
...cliff to her new home in the Faroe Islands. She hasn't yet made up her mind to come down again. Six hundred years ago her Viking ancestors on the craggy basalt archipelago, jutting sharply from the sea 250 miles north of Scotland, came under Danish rule. They haven't yet made up their minds to shake...
...whale-oil lamps burn low while they argued the merits of proud independence on the one hand or Danish protection on the other. Some have even suggested alliance with the U.S. or Britain. But last September, when the Danes offered them a flat choice between full freedom or continued rule, the Faroese, unable to decide, turned down both alternatives. Last week they elected a new Lagting (local parliament) with instructions to work out some compromise which would adapt Danish rule to local conditions in the Faroes...
Nobody in his senses believed that Guatemala seriously contemplated expropriating the United Fruit's immense, highly mechanized plantations. With a bark fiercer than his bite, Arévalo in his 20 months of rule had not even got around to using his constitutional power to revise the company's 50-year exemption from new taxation. But his bold speechifying had an immediate effect: next day the strike was suspended; United Fruit agreed to rehire hundreds of discharged workers and ordered its ships to resume their calls at the Caribbean port of Puerto Barrios...
Uniform A.B. degree have been found to be the rule in one sampling of U.S. colleges, although the B.S. for concentrators in the natural sciences is not uncommon, the typical form being "B.S. in Chemistry, B.S. in Mathematics," and so forth. Wisconsin and Chicago, at least, add a third, Bachelor of Philosophy, for social scientists...