Word: ruling
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Despite this general rule, Athanassios, an engineer aboard a tiny cargo vessel called the Dynamo, did trust his young brother Christakis well enough to get them both free. One night last week, as the Dynamo's captain, Vassilis Kotzis, and two Communist soldiers assigned to guard his cargo of flour and tires were waiting to set sail in the harbor at Valona Athanassios turned up on board with a surprise-some rare white bread, cheese and good red wine. "From a cousin's wedding," he explained as he disappeared into the galley to prepare the feast...
...when she was 17. After the birth of a son, Juana's mind began to go. and the philan-derings of Philip are said to have aggravated her illness. Isabella specified in her will that Ferdinand, her husband (who was not in the blood line of succession), should rule as regent of Castile if Juana was incapable of ruling. When Isabella died in 1504, Juana got the crown, but Ferdinand-and for a brief time Philip-got the power. Driven deeper into insanity by the death of her husband, Queen Juana la Loca died in 1555 without ever having...
...Peter, to use modern Protestant terminology, was simply the head of a foreign mission board, who had formerly been moderator of the church, what of the Catholic scriptural claim about Christ's promise to build His church on the "rock" of Peter, with his accompanying command to rule the faithful?† Luther and the Protestant reformers held that by "rock" Christ meant not Peter but Himself, or the faith of His followers. Many modern Biblical scholars insist that the text itself is either spurious or garbled...
...Picnic," a technical triumph by playwright William Inge, sometimes swaps precision for honest emotion, but the production, with excellent acting by Janice Rule and Ralph Meeker, is uniformly effective...
...rule, which may go into effect next fall, according to an announcement Saturday by Arthur S. Flemming, director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, would require a higher grade than the present minimum of 75 on the deferment test for college students or a higher rank than merely the top half of a graduating college class...