Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the foundation will devote $500,000 toward stimulating a cultural interchange between the U.S. and Poland. Aware of the problems involved in dealing with a nation that teeters so warily in the Soviet shadow, Heald said that "recent developments," i.e., the Polish deliverance from Moscow's iron rule, as well as the Eisenhower Administration's tentative foreign aid program for Poland (TIME, Jan. 14), "appeared to us to call for a positive response...
...those that Republican Strauss had while a member of the AEC during the Truman Administration. Through continual run-ins with David Lilienthal, then AEC Chairman, Strauss won a reputation as the "great dissenter" before he resigned in protest against what he then called Lilienthal's one-man rule...
Hoak's Hoakum. Cincinnati's Don Hoak was first to set the rule writers working. Leading off second in a game with the Milwaukee Braves, Base Runner Hoak started for third when Cincinnati's Wally Post laced a grounder to short. Redleg Gus Bell, who had been holding first, took off for second. With his sharp infielder's eye, Hoak recognized the setup for an almost certain double play. With his sure infielder's hands he fielded the ball, tossed it to the Braves' astonished shortstop, Johnny Logan. "Hit" by a batted ball, Hoak...
Stubbornly skeptical, old Catcher Tebbetts protested so loudly that League President Giles went back to the rule book once more. The good book, Giles discovered, prohibits a pitcher from spitting on his glove or on the ball; it prevents him from rubbing the ball on his clothing or defacing it in any way. But there is no edict against spitting on the fingers and then drying them off. Pontificated Giles: "Burdette was using smart psychology." He kept right on using it against the Redlegs last week while he beat them, 5 to 4, for the ninth straight time. Whenever...
...consequence of his attempted one-man rule, the Commission has almost become a front for its chairman's foibles. Among these are a devotion to secrecy about the dangers of fall-out (except in the exchange of information with Britain, where Strauss was treated like royalty) and a Hoover-like faith in big business. One more side of Strauss' character is his determination to continue testing the big bombs. He is searching for a "clean" bomb, rather than limiting experiments to tactical weapons...