Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rule by Junta. President Aramburu does not want to be a strongman, and he is by no means free to be one. He is the head of the military junta which includes Admiral Rojas and the Ministers of Army, Navy and Air. The junta makes the government's decisions by majority vote (until elections, there is no Congress). Aramburu guides the debate and breaks ties. Any single member, if he balks hard enough, can veto any measure. And if the junta were to tell Aramburu that he had lost its confidence, he would step out at once...
Near-Idolatry. Membership of the united churches would be impressive (Anglicans: 3,000,000 in England, 55,000 in Scotland; Presbyterians: 1,300,000 in Scotland. 70,000 in England). But the notion of worshiping with Sassenach ritual is still unsettling in the Highlands, and the idea of church rule by bishops really provokes the independent Scots. The Economist spelled out their indignation: "In the real split between Low Church and Anglican Church attitudes-the pomp and circumstance which Anglicans regard as a display of beauty for the greater glory of God, and which older Presbyterians regard as near-idolatry...
Although he seems to be losing the battle to rule the Arab world, Egypt's Colonel Nasser last week won control of what is now undeniably his, the Suez Canal...
...Democrats are the party of economy. To prove it, Johnson laid down a rule for Senate Democrats: take the House's trimmed-down total on each appropriation bill as a ceiling instead of (as tradition had it) a floor...
...British] bring to making tea." His wife, however, experiences a certain tension every time she looks at the head of the water buffalo mounted above their marriage bed, or hears the hearty English governess, one Miss ffyfth, encouraging their son at his barbell exercises with the singing of Rule, Britannia...