Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of Burmans caroused amiably along Rangoon's steamy, tropical waterfront. Some still recalled the day in 1885 when Burma's last king, brash Thibaw, sailed into exile and the British took over. Now, British rule...
...TIME'S editor-in-charge-of-Sweeping-Statements insists that the exceptional Telegraph, now covering the U.S. with eight correspondents, merely proves the Fleet Street rule...
Prodding & Patience. At week's start, the Republicans suffered a serious tactical defeat when they tried, under a gag rule, to ram a token anti-inflation bill through the House. But after House Democrats, in an unusual show of solidarity, had smashed the bill (TIME, Dec. 22), Ohio's Bob Taft did a statesmanlike job of picking up the pieces in the Senate...
...left the government. Only today we obviously cannot realize it by collaborating with the government, but by popular pressure. The news is false which the rightist press has been distributing about the date of a revolution." Choosing each word carefully, he concluded: "But one can never, generally speaking, rule out an eruption of movements of revolutionary character. Even to found the United States of America a revolution was necessary...
...Legion, trained, subsidized and led by the British, is already in Palestine. The British last week were dickering with him to take over the policing of the Arab zones of Palestine when the British withdraw. Some of his Arab neighbors (especially Syria, which resents Abdullah's aspirations to rule a Greater Syria) suspected that, once installed, Abdullah's Legionnaires would stay in Palestine. Abdullah's delegate to the League, Prime Minister Samir Rifai, chain-smoked nervously through last week's meetings...