Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months, nine cabinet ministers and two top justice officials have been fired from their jobs. Last week Vice Premier Jakub Berman, long regarded as Moscow's No. 1 man in Poland, resigned because of his "mistakes." Poland, stoutly Catholic, staunchly anti-Russian, has proved a hard outpost to rule...
This has not prevented Hungarians who hate the rule of Communist Boss Rakosi from attempting to cross into Austria. Some have tried to detonate the delicate personnel mines by driving cats in front of them. Others have laid wooden planks on the wire. Austrian authorities estimate that some 6,000 have got across safely. Of late only one in three attempts is successful, and at least 500 have been killed by mines and border guards. In the cemetery in the little border village of Deutschkreutz are buried 100 who did not make it to freedom...
...woman," says an old Hindu maxim, "there is no god on earth other than her man." The most extreme form of this belief was the custom dictating that the widow fling herself on her husband's funeral pyre. Enlightened British rule put a legal end to the practice of suttee (widow suicide), but the widow's lot has remained a poor one. Under Hindu laws, widows are not permitted to wear jewelry, bright clothing, makeup. They cannot attend wedding or birthday celebrations. Under strict laws of inheritance dating back 3,000 years, a Hindu's property...
...bill, cried Hindu diehards, marks "the end of India's family system and the beginning of female rule," to which, from his seat, Nehru harrumphed: "Thinking fit for an anthropological museum." Smiling broadly at the 20 women M.P.s in India's lower House of the People, Nehru declared, "The new womanhood of India, which is growing up with all its petty faults and superficialities, is something which gives me hope for the future. I believe that if any great advances are coming to India, they will come largely through the women of India...
...teen-ager turned on him and snapped: "Who are you?" "What do you want?" countered Father Borelli. The leader ordered: "Take your hands out of your pockets!" "Why?" asked the priest. The scugnizzo lunged forward with a razor, and Father Borelli removed his hands. Thus he learned a scugnizzo rule: concealed hands mean concealed weapons...