Word: reign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking at Huey Long, old Louisiana aristocrats used to shake their heads. "Many of our Governors have been scoundrels," they said, "but up to now they have always been gentlemen." Right they were: from the reign of Carpetbagger Henry Clay Warmoth (1868-72) to the reign of Huey Long, too many amiable scoundrels and gentlemen figure-headed Louisiana life. And they left so much essential work undone that when Huey Long came bellowing and blasting his way to power in 1928 it was less like an election than like Louisiana's first payment of a longaccumulated fine for gross...
...Generalissimo's answer: phooey. The Chinese Government recognized the Japanese accent in Wang's polite phrases, and the semi-official Chungking newspaper Ta Kung Pao retorted: "Even if you can arrange a puppet reign, Wang, can you stand a single blow from our iron fist...
...little raiding of their own. Finnish fliers bombed Russian troop concentrations and supply lines for the Karelian Isthmus. They also raided the captured border village of Terijoki, where Red Finns had set up a "People's Government" and equipped a "People's Army" with uniforms from the reign of Sweden's Charles XII (1697-1718) filched from a museum...
...Stagg, co-founder of the Big Ten Conference in 1896, the Maroons won more undisputed Conference championships than any of their nine rivals, went down in football history as the only team to beat Fielding H. Yost's early-century, point-a-minute monsters during their five-year reign of terror...