Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most honored rule of her profession, a geisha must never kiss and tell...
Haircuts & Chickens. It is one of the discomfiting truths of South Viet Nam that not all are sure they prefer the unfulfilled hopes of non-Communist rule to the confidently touted certainties of Red government. For Premier Ngo Dinh Diem there is a hard shell of resistance to crack. In one characteristic village of the south last week, some of the people demonstrated what the problem...
...Asia and even of America." As the other M.P.s spoke, Mike Pearson alternately twirled his horn-rimmed glasses and sprawled in his seat with hands in his pockets. He made no immediate reply to his critics. For the time being, at least, he evidently intended to stand by his rule-of-thumb for Canadian action. The rule: yes, if it is a big war; no-or maybe-if, by Mike Pearson's definition, it is a small...
...Angeles, a new arrival, pretty Burmese Cinemactress Win Min (The Purple Plain-TIME, March 14) Than, 21, crashed into headlines with seme Oriental slants on life likely to make U.S. husbands her most loyal fans. Said Win Min Than (a bride of a year): "Men are meant to rule and woman's main function in life is to help them on ... Men at home are much like babies and want to be looked after ... To have one's husband do a day's work outside the home and then come home and work some more-why, that...
...confused Peel with his secretary, Edward Drummond. So M'Naghten shot and killed Drummond, Jan. 20, 1843. The jury's verdict: "not guilty"-by reason of insanity. The case so shook Britain that the judicial committee of the House of Lords suggested a hard and fast rule: to prove "insanity," a defendant must show-that he was either "laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act; or, if he did know it, that he did riot know he was doing what was wrong...