Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...38th honorary degree. As a rule the President accepts at least two honorary degrees each year, carefully choosing the schools to achieve a cross section of geography, size, and religious or secular orientation...
...sharp rebuff in his own backyard, but with the Texas delegation bound by the unit rule and Johnson moderates outnumbering liberal delegates two to one, Lyndon was still the man in the Texas saddle, still one of the most potent Democrats in the pre-Chicago picture. What Frankie Randolph's election meant was that in his future practice of moderation, Lyndon Johnson will have a beady eye looking over his left (liberal) shoulder...
...father, who taught school for a living. Although few natives learned to read under the Dutch, received a rare civil engineer degree at Bandung Technical Institute, entitling him to precede his name by Ir. (Dutch contraction for engineer). But Ir. Sukarno built little, instead bent himself to destroying Dutch rule. The Dutch jailed him in 1929 and kept him jailed or exiled for twelve of the next 13 years. In 1942 the Japanese army smashed over 300 years of Dutch rule in eight days, freeing Sukarno and other nationalists...
...repudiate, his earlier views, has won the confidence of many Commonwealth figures as an administrator of liberal intentions. His parliamentary manner is languid, sophisticated, earnest. Inheriting many messes, he has cleaned up some, e.g., the reinstatement of the exiled Kabaka of Buganda. Having fostered West Indian federation, Malayan self-rule, Gold Coast nationhood and Maltese integration, he has run into deep difficulty over Cyprus and Singapore, where his troubles are increased by the dictates of imperial defense...
...that home runs and high-hitting games mean cash customers, the game was played with a dead ball. Often when a home team took the field for the first time, they used a "refrigerator" ball, carefully chilled in the clubhouse icebox to make it even deader. There was no rule against spitballs, so with a cud of chewing tobacco or a wad of slippery elm, a clever man could keep the ball hopping all afternoon. After roughing up one side of the ball, pitchers used to shine the other side on a part of their uniform heavily dosed with paraffin...