Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though TIME'S editors make a firm rule of not being influenced by reader nominations, they thoroughly agreed with Reader Slattery about 1956's Man of the Year...
Though the reorganization will trim the strength of airborne divisions by one-third, and of infantry divisions by almost one-fifth, the Pentagon emphasized two points: 1) the plan does not lower the overall strength of the Army itself, or rule out future draft calls; 2) the changeover is no experiment in disarmament. Then, for old soldiers, a humane third point was added: history-rich regimental colors and numbers will somehow be preserved even in the pentomic...
...months China's Red bosses had been emphasizing the dangers of "great-nation chauvinism," i.e., rigid Soviet rule of other Communist nations, and they had expressed sympathy for Poland's demands for greater independence. Last week, however, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party did an about-face, announced that while great-nation chauvinism was still a problem, "it is also necessary to overcome nationalist tendencies in smaller countries...
Emerging from jail last spring, Senaga was greeted by mobs of cheering supporters. He pounded away at such slogans as, "End U.S. rule of the saber," "Restoration of Okinawa to Japan the motherland," "Yankee go home." Last week, despite the best efforts of U.S. authorities, Senaga got himself elected to Okinawa's top elective office-mayor of Naha, the island's biggest city (pop. 170,000). With the two other candidates splitting the pro-U.S. vote, he won with only 40% of the votes...
...answer was broadly evasive: "We have to start with the proposition that if we have particularly topical comedians like Hope, we will also have plugs. A rule which tries to bar all plugs is not only unworkable but undesirable." NBC also admitted that it had tried with little success "to cut down on the number of trade-name references" used by Hope...