Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Fitzgerald Kennedy set off a cannon cracker in the Senate that rattled the windows at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and painfully burned an ally 3,800 miles away. The Kennedy rework: an urgent appeal for the U.S. to step into the bloody Algerian rebellion against French rule and lend its weight to the cause of Algerian independence...
Economically, Ceylon's problems stem from the plantation system instituted by the British before 1932, she said. In that year constitutional reform was undertaken, bringing internal self-rule and the universal franchse...
...Cyprus queston, Howell said the best solution lay in self-determination following a period of peaceful joint rule with the British...
Seasick Invasion. In the mountains near Mexico City, Castro set up a military training camp, held meetings with sympathetic Cuban business and professional men, who apparently dismissed his land-reforming, anti-business attitudes as youthful radicalism. It was agreed that once Batista was ousted, the businessmen would take over, rule Cuba for two years, hold free elections. Last December Castro landed a force of 82 seasick men in Oriente, set up headquarters in the Sierra Maestra. Castro knows that he cannot win merely by avoiding capture. But he does want to become a symbol of opposition that will attract...
...long since resigned herself to the fact that while he loves her dearly, Birdie loves baseball more. He has occasionally been caught reading a novel, but even in the dead of winter he is more likely to spend his evenings digesting the Baseball Register, or poring over the rule book. "I don't know whether he's refreshing his memory or looking for loopholes," says Mary. Occasionally she will interrupt him by asking: "Well, dear, what inning...