Word: regente
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...latest discovery: a potion which abruptly evokes the past. One sip puts Young in the company of Roger Kylmerth, an early occupant of Kilmarth, who is immersed in the intricate plottings of the neighboring gentry and even a national struggle between partisans of Edward III and England's regent Isabella of France...
...insomnia, headache and restlessness to delirium, convulsions and stupor. Even after his condition improved, George suffered periods during which his doctors said "wrong ideas" took hold of him. In 1810, he became so ill that he was incapacitated for the rest of his life, and his son, as Prince Regent, assumed the King's duties, George died at 81, one month after a turbulent attack during which he went 58 hours without sleep...
Dorothy B. Chandler, L.H.D., patron of the arts and former California regent...
...Paris at the age of 18, then studied with Stage Designer Claude Gillot and Interior Decorator Claude Audran before striking out on his own. The times cried out for a chronicler. After the aged Sun King, Louis XIV died in 1715, French society, under the leadership of the dissolute regent, the Due d'Orleans, gave itself over to a rabid pursuit of pleasure, rivaling that of Imperial Rome. Hairdos, fashions and morals reached undreamed-of heights, lengths and depths. Theaters, operas and court ballets were packed the year round, while gentlefolk staged amateur theatricals by the score in their...
...five other resolutions all blasted the Regents for their decision last month to reject Cleaver's appointment and to destroy the Board of Educational Development (BED)--the faculty committee that had created the Cleaver course. By their "hasty and ill considered action," the resolutions said, the Regent had "abolished academic freedom" at Berkeley...