Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was some resentment among Council members at the suddenness of the decree and the fact that it was made without consulting the Council. "Graduate students are not being treated as adults," declared Max Plotkin 2G. Another member suggested that informal social pressures would be more effective than rule by flat in eliminating unpleasant problems...
...though clearly different from Faubus' attempt to convert the public school system into a private school establishment, is nevertheless reproachable. The Arkansas scheme was struck down as a clear attempt to evade the desegregation of the Little Rock public schools; presumably the Supreme Court, in a broad interpretation, could rule similarly in the Virginia case...
...Majority Rule. The AEC's dissent punctuated one of the strangest chapters in modern U.S. diplomacy, a chapter that brought important modifications of longstanding U.S. nuclear policy with hardly a word of public debate. It began in 1957-58, when the Russians whipped up a new storm of propaganda against nuclear tests as a hazard to health and wholesome genetics. The Communists got special plaudits from neutralists in Asia and Africa, from U.S. pacifists and idealists, when the U.S.S.R. announced in March 1958 that it was suspending tests. At one point, Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge warned...
Unwritten Rule. Although most editors use wire-service stories of Sunday network TV shows, many are still sensitive about acknowledging that the news in their pages originated on TV. When the Fort Worth Star-Telegram printed its story on Mikoyan's TV interview, it omitted the name of the program on which he appeared, and that of the broadcasting company (NBC's Meet the Press). Editors are particularly pained at picking up news stories developed by local TV stations. In Chicago some rewritemen still invoke the old unwritten city-room rule to omit the names of the show...
...collection of twelve remarkable short stories, walk through walls, don seven-league boots, and play chess with stuffed owls. If the meanings are not always crisp and clear, the prose is. In his stories as in his novels (The Barkeep of Blemont, The Second Face) Author Ayme follows one rule: put all of life's ironies in the creative fire...