Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through inexperience and the complicated task of coping simultaneously with half a dozen rebellions, they failed to achieve most of their targets. Early this year, after almost a decade of independence, Burma's gross national product was still less than 90% of what it had been under British rule in 1939. Exports of rice, the nation's main source of foreign exchange, were less than two-thirds the prewar average...
...with the first returns, an astonishing trend set in. From half a dozen eastern constituencies that were long firmly Liberal came the flash: "Tories Leading." The Tory surge grew as it moved west. Quickly the last seat of the overwhelming Liberal majority fell, and the Liberals' 22-year rule over Canada came to an end. When final returns were in, the Conservative Party held 109 seats, the Liberal holdings were down to 104, and two small parties with 44 seats held the balance of power in Parliament...
...Chief Lester Pearson's we-know-best refusal to answer the crowding questions about the suicide of Ambassador Herbert Norman in Egypt (see box). The voters saw in earnest John Diefenbaker a way to unload .the entrenched government. Riled at the Liberal assumption that only Liberals could competently rule, they decided that the time for a change had come...
...troops invaded the palace, forced Fignole to sign a letter of resignation, later whisked him to Miami on an air force plane. Next morning Kebreau went on the air and announced Haiti's seventh government in six months: a three-man military junta, headed by himself, to rule-as usual-until "fair and free elections" could be held...
...unhealthy mysticism. The withdrawal of small groups for meditation, prayer and spiritual study used to be a distinctive practice of other religions, notably Roman Catholicism and Buddhism. Today, Protestant retreat houses are multiplying. Retreats range from one-day spiritual refreshers to week-long programs modeled on a monastic rule...