Word: reign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor shape. He immediately started building a new church and a new school. He kept four cows and distributed milk to the undernourished children. He spent much time visiting the sick and the jailed. Soon he became a prisoner himself. When Bela Kun established his four months' Communist reign of terror in 1919, Father Pehm attacked him in a pamphlet. The Communists led him through the town's streets "in shame," then imprisoned him in the county courthouse...
...there had not been a movement against Rome among his people: it was led by men willing to fight papacy and Church for the freedom to read and interpret the Bible as they saw fit. Henry never countenanced such radicals, and he burned some as heretics during his reign. To Henry, that was just good sense...
Most biographers begin their books with a bow to Mr. Smith and Mrs. Brown, without whose patience and generosity this book would never . . . etc., etc. Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay, who was brought up a cavalryman in the reign of Franz Joseph of Austria, includes a jab of the rowel: "I wish to express my admiration for the courage of those who thrust upon me their uninvited advice on a subject of which they had no knowledge, and which ... I avoided accepting...
...lesser known Crimson sports is currently enjoying something of a reign of success. This is the squash team, which after a winless period of informal wartime play, has come back to take all but three of its postwar marches. And Saturday's Commanding 7 to 0 conquest of McGill indicates that the era of Harvard squash success is going to continue for another year at least...
...together with homely craftsmanship; at their best they have something of the appeal of primitive painting. The Big Fisherman, the eleventh, has all the characteristics of its predecessors that have made Dr. Douglas one of the most popular of living novelists. The story begins in the reign of Herod, with the marriage of his son Antipas to an Arabian princess, Arnon. Herod, fearing that the Romans are going to overrun his country, has arranged the marriage with the King of Arabia, to seal a treaty uniting these ancient enemies. The marriage works out badly. Town life and the elaborate ceremonials...