Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lightweight crew has no chance to win points in the freshman races and must excel in both varsity and J.V. in New London if it hopes to maintain its reign in the East. The two upperclass races are weighted heavier in the scoring at the Sprints, but still account for only a little more than two-thirds of the points. Varsity captain Jeffrey MacMillan says the lights may have to win both races, and even then the rowers could not be certain to hold onto...
...States this summer, the Stones have dumped Sucking in the Seventies into the suburban record shop bins and are waiting for the virtually guaranteed profits. They really don't lose much stature in the process because everyone who cares knows they stopped producing their best stuff sometime during the reign of Richard Nixon. This is the Stones hanging on, older and less tough, but still worth listening to if you once did Charlie Watts on you plastic pencil case...
...decades, American history has been pockmarked, redirected, twisted by bullets. It is cause for jubilation that the president survived Monday's attempted assassination; the bloody scene outside a Washington hotel, though, is also cause for despair. Despite all the lessons, all the grief, we have failed to end the reign of violence that is our shame...
...nation's top jurist, Chief Justice Warren Burger, warned last month about the "reign of terror in American cities" and bitingly asked: "Are we not hostages within the borders of our own selfstyled, enlightened, civilized country?" Some criminologists answer that the fear of becoming a victim of crime is greater than the actual risk, but no one denies that the fear is real. Proclaimed the Figgie Report, a privately funded study of crime in the U.S.: "The fear of crime is slowly paralyzing American society." Observes Houston Police Chief B.K. Johnson: "We have allowed ourselves to degenerate to the point...
...Jerusalem's Hebrew University, has found indications that the Israelites went into the desert to elude not the Philistines but the very people from whom they were escaping-Egyptians. The evidence: the remains of a large Egyptian community just south of Gaza that flourished during the reign of Moses' putative foe, the Pharaoh Ramses...