Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Shovels. Siam's people had reason to be cheerful. Since the middle of the 18th Century their country has been free from foreign rule (except for the Japanese occupation during World War II). The Siamese feel no smoldering resentment against any former colonial masters, are also happy because their country is comparatively rich and not overcrowded. Yet all of its cheerfulness cannot shield Siam from the crosswinds of Communist insurrection which blow across the border from Burma, Indo-China and Malaya...
Gonzalez gave his cabinet a nutshell diagnosis of the situation: "The Communists have taken advantage of the students. We have to stop them at once." Then he put the riot-torn city under military rule, and went into a huddle with his aides to draft a message to Congress asking for special powers...
When opening-night New London townspeople first saw her three-year-old Yerma, a grim study of wifely frustrations, some were not sure how they liked it. Valerie's angular movements seemed almost as if they had been laid out with a carpenter's rule. Later, most found it easier to applaud her powerful adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying...
...picked up a little, but not until they were one-quarter mile from home did they start to run in earnest. Richards brought Ridge Wood to the wire in front by three lengths. In spite of spectators' boos and an inquiry by track stewards (who found that no rule had been infringed) Ridge Wood's owner picked up $4,648 in prize money. Time: 5:13 4/5. World's record for the distance...
...writes Bill every day and has little long-distance chats with him almost as often. Cost of one recent call: $145. At first they vowed to have no other dates, but Elizabeth felt like such a wallflower at one of Cobina Wright's parties she had that rule made a little more flexible...