Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor-union meetings, most of the talk centered on how to get new benefits, not on how to keep up with a runaway cost of living. At the office coffee breaks, the talk was easy and calm, not about the coming war or the coming depression. Moderation was the rule. In Chicago, City Park Superintendent Walter Wright announced that police would not use tape measures this summer to check on indecent exposure at the city's bathing beaches, but would limit themselves to reasonable judgment of what is proper. Said Wright: "People are not going to the extremes they...
...Secretary Giovanni Malagodi scornfully attacked Pella's "strange argument" that "a one-party government would get its votes from the right for so-called national measures, while it would receive votes from the left for social measures. In other words, over the prostrate body of the nation would rule two demagogues, one a flaming nationalist, the other a pseudo-Socialist." His scorn was directed at the Concentration's fond ambition to pass foreign policy measures with help from the Monarchists (who are pro-Western) and economic reforms with votes from Pietro Nenni's Communist-line Socialists...
Seven-Year Grind. Anglican Witcutt became a Roman Catholic, and resolved to study for the priesthood. He persuaded Catholic authorities to waive their rule requiring converts to spend two years in the church before entering the seminary, and within a month of his reception into the church, plunged into a seven-year seminary grind at Oscott...
...friend calls Hammarskjold, writes intense romantic lyrics and goes roaming through the Lapland mountains in search of a mystic ideal. In many men, such a dichotomy could lead to complications. But Hammarskjold's mind seems to have found a satisfactory synthesis. His philosophy is complex but its basic rule is clear: "self-surrender" to an ideal which can be made reality through faith and material hard work...
...little has been done on purely military grounds to speed up industrial dispersal-partly because of the enormous cost. Not until two years after the Korean war began did Washington take its first-and only-significant step. It ruled that in the future all new plants seeking rapid tax amortization certificates would have to be located at least ten miles outside "Probable Ground Zero," i.e., defense industry and population centers. By that time, however, the Government had already granted fast tax write-offs for $20 billion in defense construction. Moreover, even the belated rule has largely been ignored. Only...