Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decoyed him to one side. Seated way up front was Britain's frail old Author Somerset Maugham, complaining of cold feet. Near by sat swart Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping tycoon, whose ownership of the gambling casino is a far more significant fact in Monte Carlo than the rule of Prince Rainier. Filling other rows were the aging, wheelchaired Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum, the French Academy's Andre Maurois, Broadway's soignée Ilka Chase, and Jack Kelly's pals from Philly...
...athletes moved into fraternity houses or stayed with friends; a hastily elected committee of twelve, under Varsity End Dan Coyle, went to Crisp with an ultimatum: abolish the bed checks for athletes whose sport is not in season, grant unlimited weekend privileges, cancel the four-hour compulsory study rule. Otherwise, said the athletes, they would not go back to Friedman Hall and they would not even play for Alabama...
...startling comparison to Saturday's mild game, Monday's match pitted the Crimson against the biggest and most aggressive team it has faced in some time. Again, however, the Bears were the only side to utilize the West Coast's substitution for injuries rule, although as the final whistle blew, Crimson scrum half Charles Levine and flanker John Chalsty were both lying unconscious on the turf. Neither suffered lasting aftereffects...
...tide. To reach the stream, McKeon had to lead his men across a 100 ft. border of deep black mud carpeted by yard-high swamp grass. He did not hesitate, although he later admitted that he had "never been in the area before," a tragic lapse from the basic rule that a troop leader must know his ground. Behind McKeon, the recruits sank deep in the mud, slipping and sliding and clutching each other for support...
Imitation of Christ. Pere Foucauld had dreamed of founding a religious order, but he died alone, without baptizing more than three or four converts in his entire life. In 1933 five students in the seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux decided to found an order based on his austere rule of "extreme poverty in everything." In Algeria, on the edge of the Sahara at El-Abiodh-Sidi-Cheikh, the first novitiate of the Petits Freres de Jesus was opened. Six years later an order of women, the Petites Soeurs de Jesus, was founded...