Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--Sen. George Mitchell of Maine was elected Senate majority leader yesterday by Democrats seeking a forceful new spokesman during yet another Republican reign at the White House, and he quickly promised President-elect George Bush his initiatives will be met with "interest and enthusiasm...
...Shah celebrated his reign with a $300 million extravaganza. The Pahlavi "dynasty" had just started its sixth decade, the outcome of a coup mounted by the Shah's father, Reza Khan, an army officer whom some regarded as the Bismarck of Persia. Flying high on his magic carpet, the Shah seemed out of touch with the forces gathering against him. Resentment of his Western ways was fanned by the Muslim clergy. Intellectuals, students and professionals thought the figure posing in Ruritanian uniform and a Disneyland crown was not Western enough. These dissenters frequently attracted the attention of the security police...
...July 27, 1980, Radio Tehran announced the death of "the bloodsucker of the century." The judgment was self-serving and exaggerated the Shah's stature. Shawcross's story of a pawn in King's clothing comes to a sorrier conclusion. The Shah's reign, this book suggests, was less a study in the banality of evil than the banality of pride...
Nevertheless, during his reign, from 1969 to 1986, Rosenthal introduced a more compelling, interpretive magazine-style journalism and ushered in the weekly specialty sections (Science, Living, etc.) that soon became the standard for the industry. In the process, he transformed the respected but financially moribund Times into one of the world's most valuable media enterprises. How Rosenthal's editorial talent propelled him to the pinnacle of American journalism despite what many agree are serious personality flaws is the theme of Joseph Goulden's Fit to Print: A.M. Rosenthal and His Times (Lyle Stuart...
...played two [forwards] wide and one inside," Getman said. "It gave Ramy free reign to go forward. It was obviously effective...