Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tuskegee Institute reported only two lynchings in the U.S. during 1948, both in Georgia. One other death was listed as "borderline" because only two men participated in the slaying. By Tuskegee's rule, it takes three to make a lynching...
...Paku Buwono XII, the Susuhunan ("Nail from Which the Universe Is Suspended") of Surakarta. The Susuhunan is a shy little Dutcheducated, sport-loving princeling who meekly permitted himself to be called "Comrade" during the republic. The Dutch would have to find stronger nails on which to peg their rule...
...cold, muddy waters of Shanghai's Soochow Creek teemed with thousands of Chinese junks and smaller sampans. Terrified refugees were preparing once more to flee before the surging tide of Communism. Nevertheless, the great majority of Chinese were becoming more reconciled to the prospects of Communist rule. The cagey Reds had switched to a "soft" line...
...ever seen, not only in golf but in any other sport." He played the Texas amateur circuit, trying to do as well as such crack golfers as Ralph Guldahl (who became U.S. Open champion in 1937 and 1938) and Nelson (U.S. Open champion in 1939). Hogan's rule, then as now: "If you can't outplay them, outwork them." At 19, when his game was good but still as unpredictable as a slippery green, Ben Hogan turned pro. Then he decided to get out of Fort Worth...
Dean Bender yesterday criticized sharply the new proposals of the Selective Service deferment committee which would keep top college students out of the draft. "Why rule the best brains out of the Army and Navy?" Bender said. "It doesn't seem to me to be a very sensible thing...