Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his discharge, Ireland spent a year as a Veterans Administration patient. When the U.S. got into the Korean war, he promptly reenlisted in the Marines. Since the corps has a rule against sending men with more than two Purple Hearts into combat, Ireland needed special authorization to get into a front-line unit. The word came down from the Marines' commandant, General Clifton B. Gates: "If the sergeant wants to fight, let him fight...
...millions of words of speculation about Beria's fall, some of the most cautious and sensible were to be found in a British intelligence appraisal prepared for Prime Minister Churchill. Its conclusion: the rule of oligarchy in Russia (i.e., "collective leadership") is disintegrating; the struggle for power is between bosses, not between clear-cut factions like the party and the police. The police apparatus, which survived the destruction of previous bosses, is now in Malenkov's hands...
...from the Russians. Now, the Eisenhower Administration had come around to the thesis that further economic aid would only postpone Mossadegh's inevitable day of reckoning. Angrily, the pro-government newspaper Khabar cried: "We can see dirty hands stretched out from under a Point Four cover trying to rule us by dollar . . . The U.S. must know that we won't allow Yankees to take the evil British place." Extremists would surely demand a break with the West and an approach to the Soviet Union. The U.S. was taking a risk. But there was some hope that Eisenhower...
...Handicapper's rule of thumb: three pounds of extra weight equal a length in a mile race...
...notable weakness of most contemporary art has been the decline in artistic craftsmanship. Among the exceptions to the rule is a lanky Santa Fe potter named Warren Gilbertson, 42, who combines the artist's soaring imagination with the craftsman's practical knowledge of his tools. Last week he was demonstrating the fact anew with a series of glowing vases, cups and bowls which looked extraordinarily like China's classic Sung dynasty Chien-yao ware (better known by its Japanese name: Temmoku...