Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the takeover, Editor Gould's editorials had sniped consistently at the tottering Nationalist regime, babbled confidently over the prospects of Communist rule. Now, Gould's Chinese workers were demanding wages for July despite the fact that Gould had stopped publishing in June. After a three-day lock-in, Gould finally gave up; he would scrape up the money somewhere...
...invasion was a promotion stunt cooked up to encourage tourist trade and to commemorate the landing in 449 of the Saxon chiefs Henges & Horsa. To greet last week's seafaring Danes (and put them in their place), a British band struck up Britannia, Rule the Waves...
...fought with the government, many with the guerrillas. The only thing the people of Klidi knew for sure was that they wanted to hold on to their rich cornfields. For that reason, they had collaborated with the Nazis during the German occupation; for that reason, they obeyed the rule of their proedros (village president), Dimitrios Follokos...
Affirmative No. But the ban on "hard" liquor was one rule radio had never broken. In 1939 the 17th Annual Convention of the National Association of Broadcasters had even written it into its official standards of practice: "Member stations shall not accept for advertising [any] spiritous or 'hard' liquor." True to their pledge, the networks said no to Schenley. But their refusal somehow sounded as if they wished they could...
Haile Selassie wrote from Addis Ababa for a supply of Little Blue Books; Admiral Byrd took along a complete set to the South Pole; Franklin P. (Information Please) Adams is a steady customer. For kings and commoners, Haldeman-Julius has one inflexible rule: cash in advance. He grosses around $500,000 a year, but the profit on the average Blue Book is a bare two-tenths of 1?. Even so, Haldeman-Julius, though still a talking Socialist, can indulge a taste for champagne and crepes suzette, keep up a 160-acre farm...