Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, which inquired recently: ARE WE COMMERCIALIZING SEX? (Conclusion: "Maybe.") Many other mass-circulation magazines have joined the fad for question mark journalism, and in recent months have popped brain-rattling questions ranging from WAR GETTING CLOSER? (Answer: Few governments "now rule it out") to HOW WILL THE BIRD FLY?, a report on the stock market that concluded sagely: "There was solid ground for fogbound uncertainty." In McGraw-Hill's Business Week, an inquiring headline writer last week achieved a fogbound classic. Asked the head: INFLATION OR DEFLATION? Answered the boldface subhead: "Washington...
...truth must rule all we think and all we do. No people can live to itself alone. The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. The economic need of all nations-in mutual dependence-makes isolation an impossibility; not even America's prosperity could long survive if other nations did not also prosper. No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe. And any people seeking such shelter for themselves can now build only their prison...
...blank dismay as the man climbed into the ring, then went into a friendly clinch and clung as if for the bell. Next he was asked to recall the maxim his religious mother taught him. "Go to church and believe in God?" he guessed desperately. "Live by the golden rule and keep goin'," prompted Edwards firmly. "Keep goin'," repeated Dempsey. He kept goin'. Only once, with obvious inadvertence, did he throw a verbal counterpunch. "Now they say you were a hobo," droned Edwards, "but you were never really a hobo, were you?" Dempsey groped, then murmured gently...
...Basketball Association of America. The association, coughed along, and in 1949 became the N.B.A. The crowds had been staying away in busloads, and teams were losing as much as $100,000 a season; there was no time to waste. To liven the game, Podoloff fostered a new rule requiring a team to shoot 24 seconds after it gets its hands on the ball. He cajoled the N.B.A. teams into abandoning the stolid, slow-moving zone defense, and persuaded TV officials to carry games on the air. The combination of change and promotion caught...
Frantic city fathers, merchants and clergymen called hand-wringing emergency town meetings. Manager Edwards appeared at many of the sessions, waving a pocket slide rule. He argued that Bayonne was living too high off the hog; e.g., it has 13.3 municipal employees per 1,000 residents, against a national average...