Word: reign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lazy island of Madagascar the Axis might not only control the western Indian Ocean, but also attack the minerally rich Union of South Africa, only 800 miles away. Last week Prime Minister Smuts heard that Pierre Laval's rise to power in Vichy had been followed by a reign of terror in Madagascar, in which hundreds of Free French sympathizers were arrested. Prime Minister Smuts thereupon broke relations with Vichy, saying ''we do not cease to cherish a firm faith in the resurrection of France." It was rumored that South African troops would soon be sent...
Uniformed soldiers, tanks and bombers, rather than toothsome girlish smiles, will sell this year's quota of cigarets and soup to the U.S. public. Last week the most important barometer of U.S. advertising art indicated that the long reign of the pretty girl, the adman's most unfailing little helper, was temporarily on the decline. That barometer was the annual exhibition of the Art Directors Club of New York, year's biggest event in advertising...
...York's schools suffer not only from bigness but from 18 years of Tammany mismanagement. During the reign of Dr. George J. Ryan, longtime (1922-36) president of the Board of Education, there were complaints that school officials wasted millions on school sites, buildings, furniture, by overpayments to favorites. Promotion went by political favor; pupils were strictly regimented: they had to march lockstep; some principals went so far as to make their girls wear uniforms (bloomers and long black cotton stockings) to make them less tempting to boys...
Thousands of years of happy reign be thine; Rule on, my lord, till what are pebbles now, By age united to mighty rocks shall grow, Whose venerable sides the moss doth line...
Since the 13th-Century reign of Genghis Khan, the Mongols of northern China have been a proud, fierce people. They have fought Chinese and Japanese with equal stubbornness. Just as stubbornly they have fought among themselves. Outer Mongolia fell under Soviet influence; then Inner Mongolia, stretching north from China's Great Wall to the Gobi, became the Japanese puppet state of Meng-Chiang...