Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln broods over the capital of the U.S., where Jim Crow is the rule, where Negroes are barred from downtown hotels and restaurants, segregated at movies and barred from the city's only legitimate theater. Washington's customs are only a shade less Southern than the South...
Flag Up. A few hours after Cunningham left the docks at Haifa, 400 Jews gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum under the watchful eyes of Haganah Bren-gunners. The 13 men who would rule the new Jewish state sat down at a long table on a raised dais. Over their heads were white Zionist flags bearing two pale blue stripes and a blue Star of David. The assemblage rose to sing the Zionist anthem Hatikvah-"The ancient longing will be fulfilled, to return to the land ... of our fathers...
...Protestants, for the principle of Protestantism is an unconscious agnosticism which leads to the fallacy that private opinion, rather than law and spiritual knowledge objectively verified, is the rule of life . . . [Unitarianism is rather] a true Catholicism...
...Eddie aside to diagram his mistakes. He showed Arcaro how he lost distance by swinging wide to go around two horses on a turn; low he risked being run into the rail by trying to squeeze through on the inside of a front rider. He formulated it into a rule that Eddie still works by: "Never go outside of two or inside of one." Davison was insistent about never losing ground; it cost Arcaro one spill after another, trying to squeeze through between horses. The first bad tumble he had was from a plater named Gunfire at Chicago...
...History. Both made contributions-local studies and biographies-to that vast unread library of India which hundreds of Englishmen, have written for two centuries. As the years passed, they noted that a new Indian history was growing under their eyes. The slapdash, casual rule of the old East India Company "nabobs" was being tightened into the more efficient but far more inflexible system of imperial government. India was dividing into two worlds-that of the alien ruler and that of the native ruled; and day by day it grew more difficult for men like Henry to "belong to both...