Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every man and woman in Britain is supposed in theory to contribute a portion of his or her income to the nation's health insurance and unemployment fund, and Britain's imperturbable bureaucracy is intent on allowing the fewest possible exceptions to the rule. Some months ago the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance sent one Harry ("Stopper") Corke its blanks to fill out, got them back with a note from Corke scribbled on the back: "I do not need these cards. I haven't worked for 14 months. I get my living by thieving." As credentials...
...Cairo, Gamal Nasser's propagandists screeched their loudest at Jordan's embattled King Hussein. HUSSEIN SMUGGLES WEALTH TO SWITZERLAND, cried one headline. "How does King Hussein rule?" asked the newspaper Al Ahram. "Through prisons, guillotines, tanks and U.S. dollars." Radio Cairo's "Voice of the Arabs" called repeatedly for "death to the traitors who rule Jordan," put on a soap opera depicting a Hussein pursued by a fortuneteller croaking that his people will avenge his treasonous friendship with...
...Noted Journalist" Higgins, plugging Crest toothpaste. Washington-based Maggie Higgins, 37 (married to Major General William E. Hall), took her $500 fee and thought nothing more of it until she got a letter from the Standing Committee of Congressional Press Gallery Correspondents, questioning whether she had violated its rule against "paid publicity or promotion work...
When ships go down, the cry goes up: "Women and children first!" Now two reputable psychiatrists have decided that the age-old rule of the sea, aimed at helping those least able to help themselves, should be thrown overboard...
...psychiatrists pointed out that during the war children often survived the most unnerving experiences psychologically intact so long as a parent was with them, but quickly collapsed when alone, the experiences becoming "enormously important the moment they break up family life." Concluded the psychiatrists: the "women and children first" rule should be modified "by insistence that a parent accompany the child, even if the only parent available be the father...