Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the Supreme Court's language gave color to the idea that the court was reaching beyond a rule of law in an attempt to set a pattern of social behavior. The majority opinion, written by Justice John Marshall Harlan, favorably quoted Harvard Law Dean Erwin Griswold, a leading advocate of the anything-goes school of Fifth Amendment pleading. And a concurring opinion by Justice Hugo Black (with Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices William Douglas and William J. Brennan) argued that the use of the Fifth Amendment should neither "discredit" nor "convict" any person...
Chosen for the job: sturdy, blue-eyed Major Joseph E. Barrett, 33, a tough but affable World War II veteran from Rule, Texas. Flying B-175, Pilot Barrett was shot down over Schweinfurt, Germany, spent 19 months in a German prison camp. In 1947 he transferred to helicopters, logged 250 combat hours in Korea, won a Silver Star for flying a shell-chopped chopper 70 miles behind enemy lines to retrieve a wounded fighter pilot...
Inevitable Rule. Well aware that the members of Kenya's eleven main tribal groups and hundreds of clannish subgroups find little agreement among themselves, many white Kenya colonists stood by confidently awaiting the first signs of schism among the eight African parliamentarians, but the signs never appeared. "The eight of us will differ in matters of detail," said Mboya, "but on the basic question, we don't." Fortnight ago, as Mboya's restlessness was felt more and more throughout the land, penetrating even the Mau Mau detention camps, Kenya's government ordered government tape recorders installed...
...16th century Calvinist John Knox who thundered loudest against hierarchical control of the kirks in Scotland, then Roman Catholic. Knox and fellow theologians declared that church authority passed directly from the word of God to the church congregations, and the present system of church rule by locally elected elders and a nationally elected moderator who administers the presbyteries evolved from Knox's pronouncement...
Bush Leagues & Bonuses. All over the country, college coaches echo Bibb's caustic comments. Things were bad enough when the major leagues paid polite lip service to their own rule forbidding dickering with collegians between sophomore year and graduation. But even that rule has been rescinded. Some 35% of the players on today's big-league clubs started their careers on college campuses. Some, like the Chicago Cubs' Moe Drabowsky (Trinity College), skipped the minors and started in the big time. Others, like Milwaukee's Pitcher Gene Conley (Washington State), St. Louis' Shortstop Alvin Dark...