Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fluid situation which had developed in the Communist world since Stalin's death seemed to be just what the new U.S. administration was waiting for-a first-class internal crisis in the Soviet empire. This week Russian tanks alone maintained Communist rule in East Berlin. In Czechoslovakia, nearly half the miners in the North Bohemian coal fields refused to report for work. Rumors of wholesale rioting drifted out of Poland. In Hungary, a new Premier tried to placate the people with a promise to pay more attention to the welfare of farmers and consumers. Nervously, the Soviet government ordered...
...Unlawful Bandit." Charlie Halleck was the first of 13 witnesses. Said he: "We are going to carry out what is obviously the will of the members of both sides of the House. We are faced with the necessity of asking for this rule." Ten Republicans on Dan Reed's committee had guaranteed, said Halleck, that they would vote out an EPT bill, if they could only get Reed to call a meeting. But with Reed blocking the road, there was nothing to do but act through the Rules Committee. Halleck established beyond much doubt that the Rules Committee...
...This is the capital of the Republic calling," said an announcer over the Egyptian State Radio early one morning last week. It was the first hint of the big news: Egypt, after 5,000 years of rule by Pharaohs, proconsuls and kings, had been declared a republic...
...celebrate its 20th year on the air, Don McNeill's Breakfast Club (weekdays 9 a.m., ABC, E.D.T.) this week broke a hard & fast rule by giving its studio audience something to eat. The reason: the anniversary radio show was being televised for the first time, and literal-minded TVmen felt that Breakfast Club guests should be shown eating breakfast...
...Hoosiers. Gangling (6 ft. 2 in.) Don McNeill made no protest, though he has long flourished on the theory that he need give his fans nothing: no door prizes, no cash awards, no washing machines. The one time he violated the rule with a 1944 free offer of Breakfast Club membership cards taught him a lesson. More than 850,000 requests poured in, and people still turn up at the broadcasts proudly clutching tattered, nine-year-old cardboards. McNeill's hour-long show originates from the Terrace Casino of Chicago's Morrison Hotel, but 75% of his studio...