Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this ostrich policy can't go on forever. Some issues will have to be met squarely and publicly. For one thing, Commissioner Ford Frick will have to rule on the propriety of having a college team put smack into a major league farm system. Will this violate the restrictions on dealing with amateurs? What minor league classification will Harvard be put into? Will Harvard players be subject to the annual player draft? Can the Cards send us players on option? Can they step in and shuffle the team's personnel if they aren't satisfied with its performance...
Douglas then wryly proposed a golden rule for his party: "We Democrats should treat President Eisenhower as we thought the Republicans should have treated our Democratic Presidents...
...first time in their 3½ years of rule, the Chinese Communists last week made public some of the facts & figures of their national budget. This year, said Finance Minister Po Yi-po, the Peking regime will launch its first five-year plan for industrialization-and spend 233.5 trillion people's dollars (U.S. $9.86 billion at the official Communist rate of exchange...
...good-looking, good-for-nothing roughneck (Ralph Meeker), he comes among a widow who had married unwisely for love; her two daughters, one beautiful and besought (Janice Rule), the other bright and coltishly adolescent (Kim Stanley); her boarder, an old-maid schoolteacher with an unmatrimonial-minded beau; her next-door neighbor, a middle-aged woman chained to an invalid mother. The roughneck and the beautiful girl fall hard for each other: there is a climactic scene where they dance slowly and sexually, while the other women look on-awed, envious, aroused. The fellow is sent about his business...
...They shoot together at a nearby skeet club, where the dues are a year and members work their own traps; they go bird hunting and like to fish for dolphin off Florida (which they did last week). At home, the Prices and their three sons long had an unwritten rule that nobody would make outside dates on Sunday nights, when they all ate together in front of the fireplace. The sons are now grown, but Lawyer Gwilym Jr., 30, brings his wife and Gwilym III to continue the custom. Alfred Roberts, 26, is a physician, and the youngest son, Richard...