Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rule, in politics men take up a position either to the left or right. Then the wiseacre comes along and combs his beard with his hand and says: 'Children, neither to the right nor to the left: the golden middle way.' This man with the beard has no outlook of his own. The right and the left have their definite opinions; the tactical gold-seeker slips or creeps in between them. He needs the radical oppositions so that he can skip to and fro. . . . The modern era . . . is the age of permanent revolutions. Reaction itself is a form...
...left-handed rows that turn possible system into chaos. Exceptions are fine: but when they grow too numerous, they take over the rule. Attendance comes and it goes (a month after the beginning of the term), but it fails to impress when it assigns special rows to the left-handed...
...power to the point where it felt able to attack the U.S. Since World War II ended, Communism's power had grown faster than any rise in Hitler's power between 1933 and 1939. The Communists were not the X in the equation. Their intention to rule the world had been proclaimed a thousand times, and their strength under various circumstances could be fairly accurately forecast. The unknown quantity was the Western world. How seriously would the West try to resist the Communist expansion? How ably would it go about that resistance...
There were other tentative agreements. The U.S., Great Britain and France would dovetail the economies of their occupation zones in Western Germany. A federal government, protecting states' rights but allowing for "adequate central control," was proposed as the best ultimate form of rule for a unified Germany. These agreements will be translated into specific clauses at another conference in April. Then the French will probably come into a new administrative unit, Trizonia; it will control 69% of Germany's population, a higher proportion of its industrial plant...
...controversial issue of "boss rule" will come in for heated discussion tonight, when Law Forum speakers Robert S. Allen and Edward J. Flynn square off on the question: "Should Political Machines be Abolished in the United States?" at 7:45 o'clock in the Rindge Tech Auditorium...