Word: rule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things of truth and life cannot be measured by walls and towers, square miles and boulevards, throngs of men and women or thunderous salutes from artillery. Not the place, or the grandeur, but the honest, open heart of those who will receive Him, can mark the birth and the rule of this redeeming Savior, God's gift to the world...
...Formosans in the past, have been disarmed and put to work preparing defenses on the shallow, sandy beaches that face the mainland; others have been sent to Sun's U.S.-style training camps in the south. The Formosans, who spent 50 years before World War II under Japanese rule, are getting used to the Chinese soldiery. "A country must have soldiers to have peace," said one farmer. "The ones in our village seldom bother us any more...
...Soekarno and his inexperienced government should prove unable to fill the vacuum which the end of the white man's rule had left behind in Indonesia, the Communists stood ready to rush in. In U.N.'s Security Council, they provided a clue to their attitude toward Indonesia. The Council wanted to dispatch felicitations to the Indonesians, the Dutch, and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia, whose conciliatory work had been at least in part responsible for the birth of the new nation. But the Russians cast their 42nd and 43rd veto in the Council to block the congratulatory messages...
...Commissioner Pugmire goes to the office with him two or three mornings a week. As is the army rule, she holds the same rank as her husband. Their five children are all married, but to the commissioner's deep disappointment, none of them followed him into active army service. One reason they didn't, he thinks, was because of the shock of coming back to the U.S. after their early years spent in the Orient. "The clash of life in the U.S., after the quiet of the Far East," he says, "was very exciting to them...
Then two Council members tried to destroy the quorum and hence invalidate any more Council action by walking out of the room. A quorum remained, however, and a roll call vote favored the adoption of the rule by a vote...