Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pope is so authoritarian that there is no possibility of unity with any other church in his lifetime." In the first encyclical of his reign, Pope John Paul II warned that "correct limits must be maintained" in the search for Christian unity, which "in no way [means] giving up or in any way diminishing the treasures of divine truth that the church has constantly confessed and taught." John Paul, with his well-publicized disciplinary policies regarding two progressive theologians, West Germany's Hans Küng and the Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of The Netherlands, has probably slowed down...
...message never sunk in for 17 seniors on the Harvard football team. When the going got tough--when The Crimson disclosed seniors had signed a letter criticizing the coaching reign of Joe Restic--these big, tough football players turned into towards...
...after a 14-year reign of server by Duvalier's father (Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier), the dictatorship passed without elections to a 19-year-old "Baby Doc." U.S. military ships in Fort-as-Prince Bay helped ensure a smooth transition. Today, U.S. ships still patrol Haitian waters, and Reagan plans to increase aid to Duvalier from $30 million to $50 million this year. The aid package includes helicopters and other weapons which end up in the hands of the tontons-macoutes...
...during the stormy reign of King Henry VIII, the play revolves around the events leading up to Sir Thomas More's execution for refusing to sanction Henry's divorce of his first wife to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Henry doesn't require More's permission as his chancellor to marry again: he merely wants the approval of his friend to the point he will kill More if he doesn't sign his name to a piece of paper, condoning the marriage...
...Steinbrenner! ABC sports reporter Dick Schaap gives The Great White Shipbuilder as fair a treatment as he'll probably ever get. Oh, he can't resist the usual jokes--he calls his subject "George III" for his tyrannical reign over the ballclub, and "the Yankee Clipper" for forcing his charges to get haircuts. (That demand angered at least one Yankee--outfielder Oscar Gamble, whose legendary afro added more than 12" to his six-foot frame, forcing his to affix his baseball cap with bobby pips...