Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to become professor of Physical Education at Springfield, persuaded McCurdy to join him and study for a Master of Education Degree. While there, he formed the basis of his present coaching method: "anyone can work with runners, but too many people are neglecting the field events." Proving his rule, McCurdy, in the last four years has developed the most vaunted middle distance runners in the Ivy League and in Al Wilson, Carl Goldman, and Bob Rittenburg some of the East's best field events men as well...
Defiantly, Kennelly ran for the Democratic nomination on his own. Against him, the organization had 48 of the 50 Democratic ward bosses, 30,000 well-oiled precinct workers, and endorsements from both U.S. Senator Paul Douglas and the nation's top Democrat, Adlai Stevenson, who broke his own rule against taking sides in primaries because of "my personal respect and friendship" for Dick Daley, Director of Revenue in Stevenson's administration...
...block implementation even after ratification. As a price for their hesitant support, the M.R.P. got four choice Cabinet posts, including Robert Schuman as Minister of Justice and Pierre Pflimlin, a political comer, as Minister of Finance. Faure pledged his government to carry through Mendès' proposed home rule for Tunisia, but appointed as Minister for Tunisian and Moroccan Affairs a dissident Gaullist who strongly opposes it. All of these appointments indicated an attempt to strike an "exact middle," which might in practice turn out to be a dead center...
After the lecture, Mrs. Irwin showed her listeners a semiformal dinner setting that she had arranged as a model. Then she remembered an inviolate rule: "I forgot to tell you, girls, coffee ranks tea." Explanation: when coffee and tea are served in the living room (never, never in the dining room), the top-ranking officer's wife pours the coffee, the subordinate's wife...
...population which had expanded almost four times itself in the last fifty years. Foreseeing a possible scarcity of foodstuffs, Chiang sold public lands, reduced the size of many large estates, and lowered land taxes. Within almost equalled the highest pre-war figure, Industry, badly mismanaged under earlier Chinese rule, also expanded; exports rose by over a third, though international trade is still under the direction of the government. Military expenses are so heavy, however, that the government has sold nearly all its gold and used American aid to cover its expenditures. Nearly all the gold is gone now, so continued...