Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johore Bahru, Malaya, Major General Sir Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar, better known as the Sultan of Johore, began a weeklong, million-dollar party to celebrate his 82nd birthday and 60 years of rule on the throne of the Malay state. During the festivities, his Sultanah, a Rumanian beauty named Marcella Mendl, who is the Sultan's fourth wife, will be crowned. Pounding the floor with his silver saber for emphasis, the Sultan got things going with a surprise statement attacking his own independence-minded government and supporting British imperialism: "Where are your warships, your planes and your...
...nuisance," said Sihanouk. At the chauffeur's cremation, Sihanouk him self ignited the sandalwood stake and bowed low while monks in saffron-hued robes prayed and flames licked the pink coffin. Then the young man who no longer reigned made it quite clear that he nevertheless plans to rule...
...canoe to the Tonle Bassac River's bank, strode purposefully into a cabin's hushed interior and stood solemnly before Svay Rolom's mekhum, the village chief. The citizen's purpose: to vote in Cambodia's first election since the end of French colonial rule...
Born the son of a Portuguese carpenter and a Negro slave, António Francisco grew up in the 18th century gold-rush town of Ouro Preto. There, under the harsh rule of whiplashing, saber-swinging Portuguese dragoons, both blacks and whites labored to sluice and pan over $8,000,000 in gold and diamonds from the fabulous mines of Minas Gerais. Most of the gold went to the Portuguese Crown, but the little that the miners gleaned for themselves made them rich. To prove their piety, the miners embarked on a church-building spree that created some...
Commenting on "Government Under Law in a Time of Crisis," he observed that putting the country under martial rule would be a disastrous way of reacting to atomic attack. "The maintenance of effective civil government is at the heart of the problem. Existing institutions of state have a tremendous going concern value; they should be strengthened and adapted to bear the weight of a possible attack...