Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a striking political concession to Japan, at a time when this sensitive country, whose big industry holds Asia's balance of power, is worried about its economic future and is being sedulously wooed by Russia and Communist China. The return of the Amami Oshima archipelago to Japanese rule, after eight years of U.S. occupation, removes a major source of Japanese irritation with the U.S., and puts some uncomfortable pressure on the Russians to do likewise with the extensive Japanese real estate (e.g., the Kuril Islands) they hold in the north...
...fair to the hen? The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (R.S.P.C.A.) said no: "It's unnatural. We don't speak about happiness or unhappiness, because nobody can tell whether a hen is happy or not. [But] if you let expediency rule your action and disregard feeling for others, the world is in a poor state. That kind of thing is like Hitler." The R.S.P.C.A. demanded the abolition of batteries and thereby opened wide the floodgates for another characteristic of British civilization: the angry letter writer...
...baseball adage holds that a traded player always does better with his new club. No player in recent years has proved the rule so remarkably as Virgil ("Fire") Trucks, a 34-year-old fireballing righthander currently keeping the Chicago White Sox on the New York Yankees' heels...
...Eliminate special marking requirements (e.g., the rule that every imported knife must have etched or die-sunk into it the name of the manufacturer or importer, and the country of origin...
...properties of the universe, which appear to follow separate sets of laws. To show that they are connected would complete the revolution in physics that began with the electromagnetic field theory of James Clerk Maxwell in the late 19th century. A single set of laws would be shown to rule and to unify the physical universe...