Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...H.A.A. pointed out that the rule is printed on the application envelopes and has been enforced all year. "Between ten and a hundred" people failed to claim their Princeton tickets on time, according to the ticket office...
...score of men who rule Russia, and their outriders and satraps, now had a perilous decision to make. Should they continue to appease the satellites, move cautiously ahead with more concessions and hope to achieve the "national Communism" they were prepared to accept? Or should they renounce the liberalization policy (and throw out its discredited advocate, Khrushchev), return to the iron ways of Stalin, crush opposition ruthlessly, and wait for a new generation to grow...
...plain liberalism, the Guardian has been a political maverick, with a constitutional tendency to travel the left side of the political road. It opposed the Boer War, losing almost a quarter of its circulation and requiring its reporters to take police escorts to work; it fought for Irish home rule when anti-Irish riots threatened in Manchester; it opposed Britain's entry into World War I. Under Wadsworth the paper, a nonprofit-making trust, switched its support from Labor to Tories as it deemed fit, fought British policy on Cyprus and Suez, roasted the U.S. for McCarthyism...
...phone call from SEChairman Sinclair Armstrong in Washington : "Ted, I'm sending you a telegram to the effect that we are suspending trading in Great Sweet Grass Oils pursuant to section 19 (a) (4), and we are also suspending over-the-counter trading under section 15, rule X-15C2-2." Translated, this meant that in "the public interest," and to forestall "fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative acts or practices," Sweet Grass was suspended from trading for ten days. (Toronto continued to trade the stock.) SEC scheduled a hearing to see if it should delist the stock or suspend it from...
...professional colleagues brain each other in peevish academic pillow fights. His onetime charwoman, a raffish comic delight of a character, is picked up for petty shoplifting. Through his younger son's perverted pals, Gerald is introduced to a nether world of catty infighting governed by the rule of cadge-as-cadge...