Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July, the San Francisco Girls and Boys Chorus sang America the Beautiful, This Land Is Your Land, while the delegate horde turned the convention floor into a blur of red, white and blue. Convention Guest Mark Green, co-author of There He Goes Again: Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error, confessed to an awkward moment: "At first I didn't want to wave a flag. But on the last night of the convention I was waving two of them." The party was demonstrating to itself and to the public that Democrats were no longer embarrassed by corny displays...
Today Harvard has a Freshman Dean's Offices complete with squadrons of proctors associate deans, and senior advisers, to cushion freshmen's transition from the real world to the yard. These hierarchies reign over six fiefdoms of the yard, providing support and advice while trying to remain unobtrusive. Former president A Lawrence Lowell class of 1880, called this system "Influence without vexation of grandmotherly regulation...
...annals of diplomacy, there are few suitors more ardent than Muammar Gaddafi. During his 15-year reign, the Libyan leader has proposed formal alliances with Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Chad, Sudan and Algeria. None of those marriages has endured...
Chances are there will decision no long-term damage on any side. The homogenized harmony of the Miss America Pageant continues. Suzette Charles, 21, first runner-up Williams last September, has gracefully stepped in to fill out the remaining weeks of the reign...
...black-and-white pictures two summers ago while Williams was working as a makeup artist and receptionist at a model agency. She reportedly signed a release and made little or no money from the photo session. Why the pictures surfaced now, just two months before the end of her reign, remained unexplained, but Guccione stated that Chiapel got "the most we ever paid for a layout." Williams had scant warning of the magazine's plan to publish. "She is shocked," said her lawyer, though he could hardly deny that it was she in the pictures. Williams will announce this...