Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill last night warned the West, against Russia's "aim to rule the world" before a capacity crowd in the Boston Garden. His address was the keynote speech at the MIT mid-century convocation...
...official United States Marine Corps band entertained the packed auditorium with a program of British music for a half-hour before the speeches. As Churchill's party entered, the bank struck up "Rule Britannia" and followed this with the British National Anthem...
...years later, back at New Haven, he began his teaching of 18th Century literature. He found it easy to follow the rule he gave would-be scholars: "You must fall in love with your subject." In time, he came to know as much about Johnson and Boswell as any man alive. His own boots, including the Tinker edition of Boswell's letters, were milestones in 18th Century scholarship, outdated only by the further probings of Chauncey Tinker himself. It was he who, tracing the leads all the way to Ireland in 1925, first confirmed the existence of the great...
...Captain. Though Trippe is surrounded by crack engineers, and financial and diplomatic experts, he runs Pan Am as a one-man show-and no one ever forgets it. His tight-fisted rule has been shaken more than once, but never broken...
...Capital. For its negotiating at home & abroad, Pan Am has a crack diplomatic corps topped, of course, by Trippe, who is his own persuasive, far-seeing secretary of state. He keeps on excellent terms with 73 nations, running all the way from democracies to dictatorships, by a simple rule: he never ties himself to any political party, and he keeps his political opinions to himself...