Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...security arrangements necessary were adequately handled by two Malay dancers who gyrated gracefully before the royal party, sweeping the evil spirits from the path. Even this precaution was excessive, for under the benevolent tyranny of five generations of Scottish copra growers named Clunies-Ross, who own the Cocos and rule there under the eye of the British government as virtual kings, the Cocosians have achieved a state of social security that is virtually free of crime, disease and the other evil spirits that plague most...
...Communists got to Russia, pent finches, larks, blackbirds and pigeons were let out of their cages to symbolize the coming of spring. As time passed, the freeing of birds became part of the annual celebration of the Orthodox Feast of the Annunciation. Even under the stern materialism of Soviet rule. Russia's common man, himself pent beyond hope, continued to find a fleeting moment of freedom in the liberation of small winged creatures on April 7, the Day of the Birds...
...judge by their memoirs, German generals led sheltered lives. Most of them agree that under twelve years of Hitler rule they saw no evil, spoke none and did none. The latest to proclaim his innocence is 69-year-old Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. Loyal enough by his own admission to "enjoy Hitler's unreserved confidence," Kesselring also proved affable and adjustable enough after the war to assist U.S. Army historians and retain his wartime nickname of "Smiling...
Eliot and Dunster announced that they would extend visiting hours for women guests on April 23 from the customary 8 p.m. to 11; Winthrop said it would set its parietal deadline that evening at 9; and Kirkland, Leverett, and Lowell decided to keep the 8 o'clock weeknight rule...
Mason Hammond '25, Master of Kirkland, said he will not extend the deadline past 8 p.m. because "I am very much opposed to competition among the Houses as to who has the most liberal parietal rules, so I shall keep the most conservative rule...