Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...substituted Chinese technicians and civil officials for Formosans, irrespective of their abilities. Incited by there resulting inflation and the oppressive Chinese government, the Formosans rebelled in 1947. The uprising was brutally surprised-nearly ten thousand Formosans lost their lives-but it did lead to a more enlightened rule until 1949, when Chiang again restored martial law temporarily to the island...
...such legal requirement exists in the U.S., but as an unwritten rule, it is not broken lightly. If found guilty by his colleagues, an errant doctor can expect to lose his membership in the American Medical Association, resulting in virtual boycott by the profession...
...this novel about the political Trimbles of Trimble, Ohio, it is the son and not the father who is the conservative. A full-blooded international career of oil wildcatting, marital freewheeling and ambassadorial roving has left 52-year-old John Peyton Trimble irrepressibly convinced that "experimentation" is the first rule of behavior, "essential to the courage to be oneself." His politically gifted son rigidly practices a contrary rule: "Never bet against the house-don't be a sucker-be the house." As in his other books (The Nice American, The Center of the Stage), Novelist Sykes cleaves right...
...state court ruled against the Goldmans, a Jewish couple which tried to adopt twins which were Roman Catholic, Two weeks ago the U.S. Supreme Court refused to rule on an appeal by the Goldmans...
Housemasters will no longer be restricted to choosing only 70 percent of those who apply to their House as first choice, Perkins explained. The "70 percent" rule was designed to insure an equitable distribution of all types of students in the various Houses. "The new plan will attempt to accomplish the same result in a different way," he said...