Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Could Spit . . ." With independence, Gandhi's great victory, came defeat. India, seething with fear and fanaticism, spurted blood in scores of riots. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, once a member of Gandhi's All-India Congress Party, bolted, saying that the Congress was an instrument to impose Hindu rule on India's Moslem minority. With a notably unmystical metaphor, Gandhi said: "If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown 300,000 Englishmen." But Jinnah refused to spit in unison with Hindus, for any cause. He demanded, and got, his separate...
...Valera, whose Fianna Fail had grown lazy and complacent in 16 years of uninterrupted rule, seemed to be merely against MacBride. "If you don't return me," he told the voters, "Eire faces disaster." But he had little to promise on his own account. "Better a Dev you know than a devil you don't," was the best slogan Fianna members could think...
...Less than ten hours later, the weary legislators returned to vote on the gold proposal. Premier Schuman staked his government's survival on the measure, gave the Socialists a clear choice. With the Communists and the Gaullists eagerly waiting for the coalition government to prove its incompetence to rule, the Socialists decided to stick with Schuman. Schuman's margin: a comfortable 98 votes...
...Genesis. When Hubble finished his "velocity-distance" law, he might have sat back (but probably did not) to marvel at his accomplishment. He had formulated the very first rule, buttressed with observation, that explained the behavior of every major unit in the visible universe. Other men (including Einstein) had theorized about the universe, using their minds as telescopes. Hubble had evolved his theory by looking at the universe itself...
Professor Baker declined the position despite an offer from the University to pay him for working here over weekends. Federal lawyers decided that it was illegal for a CAB member to held another job, and it seemed unlikely that President Truman would ask Congress to rule an exception in this case...