Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the stretch of the Atlantic, from Sheepshead Bay to the Nantucket bearing and beyond, runs Track Charlie, at this time of the year one of the principal transatlantic shipping lanes. By routine but not rule, westbound vessels follow the northern side of Track Charlie, eastbound ships the southern. But that evening the eastbound Stockholm was holding to the northern edge. On a clear night the course holds no serious hazard. But for three days fog had covered the sea from Newfoundland's banks down to Nantucket. The view from a ship's bridge was scarcely farther than...
...Nasser was met by a screaming crowd of 200,000 carrying banners and pictures of Nasser. As he rode from the station to his office, chanting, dancing throngs showered him with flowers, hailed him as the "Hero of Nationalization, Hero of Bandung, Hero of Brioni, the first Egyptian to rule Egypt!" Standing at last before his office window-it had taken his Cadillac an hour and a half to make what is usually a seven-minute trip-Nasser shouted his defiant answer: "The noise that we expected arose in London and Paris without any justification except imperialist reasons, the habit...
...Eighty to 85 per cent of the people are Catholics," Mrs. Arcinas explained. Perhaps the most intriguing architecture are the Buddhist temples and cemeteries. "About one per cent of the people still are Buddhist," she said--a holdover from the days prior to the centuries of Spanish and American rule...
...opportunists from outside exploited their land, were so riddled by disease that their number had dropped to less than 600. Then the Bureau of Indian Affairs sent energetic Chester Faris to take over as superintendent. Faris had a way of handling his new charges. "I always made it a rule," says he, "never to tell an Indian what to do. I waited until he told me what he wanted, and then I helped...
...also highly scandalous. Patrickstown is all right in its own way-only an hour's jaunt out of Dublin, with good fishing, cozy drinking facilities, its inhabitants (now that Lord Patrickstown, the last of the Protestant gentry, is a convert) sleeping peacefully under the benign but totalitarian rule of Roman Catholic Canon Ignatius Peart. The canon's only worries are the prevalence of love in the hayricks and the difficulty of raising funds to fit his parish house with an upstairs bathroom (which the local water pressure will not reach...