Word: ruling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...belief that images of God or of holy persons begot idolatry by distracting attention from the essence of the Godhead to the superficialities of concrete appearance. Today, the issue is only a minor one among Christians, but the vast majority of Moslems still take very seriously the Mosaic rule against graven images; they are especially incensed by statues of religious leaders, and, among these, a statue of Mohammed would be especially offensive...
...little but too much liberty without organization, "and we have become a heap of sand." What was needed was the cement. Chiang's Kuomintang tried to provide it. Slowly, while tirelessly expounding Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, Chiang forged his own philosophy of rule. Deeply imbued with Confucian thought, it was a theory based on precept, on the loyalty of subject to ruler, of son to father. "If the ruler is virtuous, the people will also be virtuous," Confucius taught...
...ranged as high as 70% of the year's crop, to 37.5%. The government broke up and sold off the big landholdings inherited from the Japanese; it bought land from the landlords and resold it to tenants on easy terms. In four years of Chiang's rule, tenancy has been reduced from 40% to 20%, and thousands of Formosans built "37.5% houses" and took "37.5% brides...
Ever since he and his Queen got back from their U.S. trip last month, the once uncertain young Shah of Iran has been giving more and more signs that he intends to rule as well as reign. Last week his chance came. General Fazlollah Zahedi, the tough Premier who liquidated the fanatical, disastrous Mossadegh regime and got Iran's oil flowing again to world markets, resigned his office. His regime had become increasingly stained by the corruption and greed which are endemic maladies in Iran. Besides, Zahedi was ill with gout, and wanted to go to Germany for prolonged...
...course of eliminating opposition to Communist rule in rugged mountainous Shensi province, Kao Kang, a squat, square-jawed warlord, learned all about the precipice treatment for despised rivals. By 1935 he had Shensi so much under his fist that Mao Tse-tung marched his harassed legions 6,000 miles to get to the safety of Kao's country. Only then did Shensi Peasant Kao, 33, and already eight years a party member, learn to read and write...