Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mussels, which she loathes but "swallowed-in the interest of TIME," giving a brief rèsumeè of the history of the 400-year-old market and, as a parting shot, bestowing a calendar upon her which told among other things the price of fish in the reign of Edward...
Died. Matthew Phipps Shiel, 81, Irish-descended, West Indies-born British novelist, writer of many a florid, adventurous novel, onetime (1887) "King Philip I" of tiny, one-square-mile Redonda, one of the, Leeward Islands (until the British Government moved in, ending his three-year "reign"); in Chichester, England...
...continued reign of diluted pornography is even more incongruous in the light of the supposed power of the Watch and Ward in its fight against the spread of obscenity. Happy to take up the scent and go bugling off after a book like "Strange Fruit," or inflexible in their command that a singer stand ramrod stiff during a rendition of "A Huggin' an' A Chalkin'," they remain helpless while the newspapers go into a detailed analysis of the intricacies of an assault. However loud the moral societies complain about the quality of the Boston newspapers, they find that the city...
Thus Virginia Woolf, in Orlando, described Britain's legendary Great Frost in the reign of King James I. Last week, no birds froze in flight, no peasant girls were pulverized. But Britain and the Continent were gripped by their worst cold wave in decades. Before it finally eased off somewhat this week, it had seriously added to Europe's manifold miseries. Icy blasts from a high pressure area over Scandinavia struck through crumbling walls and patched clothes. Ice creaked in Venice's lagoons, and gondolas carried snowy canopies. Sicilian roads were blocked by snow. In Stockholm...
Prakasam said that his government had arrested 500 Red leaders because they had initiated a provincewide "reign of terror and pain." He cited chapter and verse to back this up. The Communists had seized lands, looted crops, attacked government buildings, murdered landlords and servants, burned rice trains...