Word: reign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of violent and bestial release, the opportunity of the inhibited perversions which can now ally themselves with technical power. The dominance of the dissociated idealisms is over, and the two remaining active principles, sadistic vitality and technical power, join forces in a brief period of dominance ... [a] short reign of Antichrist...
...exile or imprison a dissenter, without judicial processes. Theoretically, the king signed each order. Actually, they were filled out, with the space for the name left blank, and clerks could issue them when needed, confining an enemy indefinitely. An estimated 150,000 lettres de cachet were issued during the reign of Louis...
...Republic would not soon forget the Year of Henry Wallace. In his reign as editor (TIME, Jan. 5), the weekly had more than doubled its circulation to 100,000-and reportedly lost more than...
...much reduced from the former state Of her long, pacific and glorious reign...
...always governed and maintained authority within the union. Of the A.F.M.'s 215,000 members, only 80,000 are full-time musicians. By cultivating the tavern pianist, the burlesque-show drummer, the small-town clerk who plays a piccolo, Petrillo insures himself a long and presumably happy reign...