Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...municipal councils throughout England and Wales showed that the Conservatives had made a net gain of 621 council seats. Labor suffered a net loss of 652 seats. Labor's loss in industrial areas was particularly notable. Grim and grimy Birmingham, which the Chamberlain family had accustomed to Tory rule, put 65 Tories in its council of 136. Manchester, Reading and Rugby went Conservative. It was the first major political shift in Britain in more than two years...
...Cripps sat alone, an independent, in the House of Commons. Tory Churchill, who knew ability when he saw it, put him to work. As British Ambassador to Moscow, Cripps concluded the long-sought Anglo-Russian Pact. Cripps was so happy on this occasion that he broke his ten-year rule of teetotalism to drink a toast in champagne with Russian friends. As the Government's special emissary to India, he failed to work out the terms of independence (mostly because he was not given elastic bargaining powers), but left behind a wealth of good will. Churchill made him Leader...
...remember their "good old golden rule days" as either golden or good; but almost all seem to love to tell about them. In an anthology out last week, two longtime schoolmasters-ex-Headmaster Claude M. Fuess and Teacher Emory S. Basford of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.-have made a scrapbook collection of the tales some 100 famous men have told, over the ages, out of school...
...spread of Communism threatens to perpetuate the evils of tyranny by enforcing the rule of a small minority party on the vast majority throughout the Balkans." said Mr. Markham. He added that the only methods capable of resolving the uncertainty and division of the nations must come from an extension of wisdom, humility, honesty, and kindness all of which totalitarianism poisons by its method and ideology...
Some people go for horseshoes, others four-leaf clovers and rabbitt paws, but after Saturday the Crimson soccer team probably will put its trust in rule books. Two penalty kicks gave the Varsity soccer team its sixth victory of the fall season as Princeton fell victim 2 to 1 Saturday on the Business School Field...