Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soviet newspapers did not tell the world about any Sputnik misfires that may have preceded the first successful launching of an artificial earth satellite. This is the difference between an open government of the people and the closed rule of a police state...
...recognition that the U.S. has far more to offer the free world than strength of arms. In its respect for local law the U.S. underscores its faith in law itself, and thus by example challenges local law to be its responsible best. At its responsible best, a free world rule of law can do more to cinch for all time the high ambitions of U.S. foreign policy than even arms and soldiers...
...Executive Secretary of the Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination, Walter H. Nolan, reported that the Attoney General is expected to rule that schools must stop requesting photographs from applicants under the Fair Educational Practices...
...erroneous legend persists that F.D.R.'s first important story came through a bold interview with President Eliot. Then, as now, there was a rule forbidding candidates to pester the University's top administrators. But, ignorant of this, the story goes, Roosevelt approached Eliot and asked him how he was going to vote in the 1900 presidential election. The legend has several variations, all of which glorify F.D.R. as a brash, bright young man who charms the story from Eliot through sheer daring...
Robert Frost (Caedmon) proves a happy exception to the rule that poets cannot read their own works as well as actors. Frost's cracked voice often sounds like that of the first progenitor of mankind, and his lucid verse sings of subjects appropriate to that early time - the whisper of a scythe in grass, the stumbling of a spindle-legged calf, the rains of autumn...