Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenya. In Mau Mau-scarred Kenya, where 40,000 whites rule 6,000,000 mostly illiterate Negroes, Ernest Vasey, 53, the cigar-chewing Minister for Finance, shocked the diehards by demanding a vote for Africans. Vasey urged that a limited number of educated Africans be allowed to participate in Kenya's next election-not on the high-minded ground that democracy demands it, but out of the hardheaded consideration that the alternative to votes is likely to be violence...
...cash in on Morocco's postwar boom. In its early days Maroc-Presse, like its competitors, rarely criticized the ironhanded suppres sion of nationalism by Resident General Alphonse Tuin. But in 1953, Maroc-Presse's Editorial Director Henri Sartout decided that France could no longer rule Morocco by force, should instead give the natives a voice in government, and thus win their support. The attack on the paper began at once. French business men pulled out their advertising, and Maroc-Presse's circulation fell sharply...
While he was gone, Publisher Walter tired of the paper's losses, sold control to Lemaigre-Dubreuil, a peanut-oil manufacturer, who was encouraged by Premier Edgar Faure to take over the paper and support the government in the more autonomous rule it planned for Morocco. Mazzella returned from Paris and was named editor in chief. After Lemaigre-Dubreuil was murdered, Mazzella was again warned of an attack on his life, and he fled for the second time. He returned to Casablanca on Bastille Day, kept Maroc-Presse publishing while mobs rioted outside his plant for two days...
...people approved when Bowles crowed: "The only thing black in the schools . . . will be the blackboards." Even when he was arrested for conspiring to violate the Delaware school-attendance laws, thousands remained loyal. They paid no attention when the state attorney general accused him of fomenting mob rule; nor did they seem to mind that he had once been in trouble with the Baltimore police for failing to pay some workmen. Bryant Bowles was leading the Cause...
...Reef, steely, hidden fingers of coral dug into the bottom of the Endeavour and the hearts of every man aboard. Ordinarily, 18th century seamen panicked fast. Most of them were too superstitious to learn how to swim; they felt it would only prolong the agony of drowning. The only rule of shipwreck and death was to loot the liquor supplies and drink oneself insensible in the short time left to live...