Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sing Sing for stabbing his mistress 27 times (Shea bungled the job -the girl lived). Next, in 1907, came Irish-born Dan Tobin, who was to hold office for 45 astonishing years. Fond of boasting that he ran the union with only two staffers, Tobin came to rule over an empire that had 1,000,000 members, claimed a net worth of $25 million, and had enormous economic and political power...
...courted and won the general's 20-year-old blonde daughter Dora. On inactive duty one year, Ben ran a CCC camp of 200 truculent boys near Lordsburg, N. Mex. "I learned a lot about command that year," he said. "I learned never to put out a rule that is unenforceable. I learned that it's important to get the staff on my side, and if you earned their loyalty, they were on your side. And I learned to show an interest in everything that was going...
Even with Humphrey lending congressional cutters aid and comfort, the total cuts in the budget will certainly be a lot less than Byrd's $6.5 billion, proving again the old rule that the snap of Congress' scissors is sharper than the snip. Foreign aid seems sure to be slashed unless the President comes to its rescue. But on the domestic front, indiscriminate congressional pork-barreling, logrolling, and horse-trading are almost certain to add some unnecessary fat, partly making up for whatever fat-and lean-is trimmed...
...cold war's most cherished political concepts has long been that of the limited war, in which each side would abide by a sort of atomic-age Marquis of Queensberry rule book, refraining from using nuclear weapons on the ground that to use them would mean ruin for both sides. But though defense budgets have long been shaped to concentrating on atomic bombs, missiles and artillery instead of masses of infantry, the notion persists that there might still be a direct confrontation between U.S. and Russian arms in which only conventional weapons would be used...
...seems to require nothing in life but steaks medium and ear lobes raw, but his wife's high-fashion friends get on his nerves. She replies that his low-life buddies get on her nerves too. Big fight. She wins it easily by invoking the old Hollywood rule of inverse virginity. When she proves that he had another bitch before he met her, Peck is a beaten...