Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astounding success in handling the tidelands oil issue last April. While the liberal Democrats were screaming about the great "giveaway" of offshore oil land, their own minority leader, Lyndon himself, was supporting the bill. Never one to make long speeches on the floor ("I proceed on the rule that you don't have to explain something you don't say"), Johnson confined himself to one 20-minute speech, just enough for consumption back in Texas. Then he sat back while the liberals tagged the Republicans as the "giveaway" boys...
Behind the grey façade of the House of Unity in East Berlin's Karl Liebknecht Platz sits the Politburo of 14 men who rule East Germany on orders from the Kremlin. From their conference room last week came pronouncements which launched a new and cunning Soviet maneuver in the cold...
...being rectified. "The former Soviet Control Commission is to a certain extent responsible for the mistakes which were made," admitted the official Soviet newspaper in East Berlin. The turnabout was, in part at least, dictated by the unbearable hardships, the hunger, the shortages and bureaucratic chaos which Soviet postwar rule had imposed on East Germany...
...industry and Government are tackling the problem of developing and perfecting wonder metals"-those metals capable of meeting the unparalleled strains and stresses of the jet and atomic age. Aircraft builders have already laid down this axiom: the nation which first masters the use of wonder metals will rule...
...really worrying about Harvard itself--he has put it in a better condition than even its most exacting critics can demand. But we are worried about education, in which Conant has long been the recognized leader. Conant reached greatness by refusing to dictate policy, by avoiding the panacea, the rule of thumb and the easy answer. He reached it by . . . demanding honest and unfettered seeking after truth. He was not only the leading defender of academic freedom--he was its personification. . . . Too few have had the courage and the will to follow his example, We cannot deny a sense...