Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same rule fed his fortune as he drained the city's malaria-breeding lowlands and on them built whole new developments such as Prati, where Rome's wealthy now dwell. It fortified him through the galling years when he repaired and built streets in Rome, ports in Sicily and roads of African conquest at Mussolini's whim. One day Mussolini called him to his Palazzo Venezia, said: "I can't see the Colosseum from my window." Replied Vaselli: "There's a hill in the way. Give me an order and I'll remove...
...spent $588 million converting Okinawa into the key U.S. military bastion in the Far East. Last week Okinawa's biggest city (pop. 180,000) had a chief executive pledged to rid the island of its "atom-hydrogen bomb base," and to return it to Japanese rule. Said a high-ranking U.S. officer: "Our chief task is to prevent Okinawa becoming a Pacific Cyprus...
...public schools of Kansas City, Mo. were integrated four years ago, the board of education has tried to hush up ugly racial incidents. But parents heard stories from their children, and the word soon got around town: in a few schools, white and Negro pupils were living by gangland rule. One ominous piece of supporting evidence: police cars kept daily watch on certain schools when the children arrived and left...
...faculty for having criticized a business crusade against the 40-hour week during the war as a cover for the antilabor views of Texas capital. In 1944 President Homer Rainey bluntly charged that one regent had demanded the heads of three facultymen because they had passed a scholastic rule that made his two sons ineligible for football. Another regent wanted to subject all teachers "to a patriotism test in the form of a questionnaire prepared by himself." As a result of such recalcitrance, the regents fired Rainey and put mild-mannered Zoologist T. S. Painter in his place. The American...
...order to attract better teachers, Wilson upped salaries so that he can now pay top professors as much as $15,000 instead of only $11,500. He put through a rule that all students with a below-C average would be put on probation, even though that meant one-fourth of the student body. He started a lecture series that brings to Texas such celebrities as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. The university now has a thriving press, and next month it will have a scholarly quarterly...