Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defended the rights off revolutionaries of all shades, called Soldier MacArthur's occupation of Japan "the greatest revolution I have ever seen." About Korea he was much less hopeful. There, a lack of U.S. policy, an inept military government and factionalism among Korean politicians has produced a "reign of terror." Japan, the former enemy, was like a "liberated country," while Korea had all the earmarks of a conquered country...
...Bataan veteran, 31 convicts broke out of the provincial stockade, disarmed their guards and a platoon of sleeping military police, and took over the town. They captured the mayor, the governor of the province, and Paul Leuterio, majority leader of the Philippine House of Representatives. After a 15-hour reign of terror, MP reinforcements routed the rebels, killed Romero...
...Hearts. In the first eleven months of their joint reign, the Argentine Government announced recently, Eva has given away in her husband's name some $4,280,000 worth of schoolbooks, clothes, shoes, furniture, toys, cakes and cider. The gifts are always accompanied by one of Eva's flowery speeches, with constant references to the "heart of Perón" and the "heart of Evita." So standard have these phrases become that opposition Cartoonist Tristan draws bejeweled Eva as a blank face with a heart-shaped mouth as her only identification. Last November, when Evita traveled to the sugar...
Whether she wills it or not, Eva's reign undeniably has its impact on Argentine politics. Only last week, with the First Lady a safe 6,000 miles away, a bitter debate over her trip led two deputies to send challenges to duel to a Radical Party colleague. Eva's enemies have a way of disappearing from the Government. Her family and friends are equally apt to hang on through thick & thin. Eva's brother is now Perón's personal secretary; her eldest sister Elisa is virtually the political boss...
...Congo, where every native has had his "Santu" or Christian name since the 16th Century, Dom Pedro V was once a monarch as absolute in his way as Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. A Portuguese army had helped enthrone him, and for 30 years they let him reign supreme over his subjects. Then in 1884 Europe began its mad scramble for Africa. Portugal's empire builders sent out their own resident governor, and Pedro and all his kind became mere pensioners. Last week, with 700 other pilgrims from Portugal's now tatterdemalion empire, another King Dom Pedro, successor...