Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built a fortress there; and under its battlements rode robber barons, Knights Templar and hymn-singing pilgrims to Rome and Jerusalem. Henry II of England led his armoured warriors past Mercuès and Thomas à Beckett paused there on his way to become governor of Cahors. By the reign of Louis XIV the rich bishops had turned the fort into a château with a magnificent terrace where they imitated the pageantry of the Sun King's court. In 1905, when France dispossessed the church of its real estate, wealthy Dr. Jean-Louis Faure, a celebrated Paris...
...country counties, where ignorance and prejudice rule, and there is a Negro problem, Ole Gene [Talmadge] got his big votes; but in the city counties, where education and enlightenment reign, . [James] Carmichael piled up a huge vote...
Fanfare for Elizabeth is just what the title says (but may not suggest). It is a study not of the reign of the great Queen but of the terrible turmoil and trumpeting that ushered in her birth, childhood and adolescence-years when the lives of privy councilors, dukes, queens, princesses, butchers and bakers hung upon a royal mood, a rash word, or a murderous plot concocted behind velvet curtains...
...troops, many of whom had fought Japs at Myitkyina and Akyab, were taking on a new kind of enemy-organized brigands called dacoits who held Burma's hinterlands in a reign of terror. In a single recent month Burma has reported 1,350 dacoities.* Because frightened paddy field workers cowered in their homes and half Burma's fields lay fallow, Burmans went hungry and Indians and Chinese starved for lack of Burma's rice...
Louis XIV had over 2,000 enemas during his reign, sometimes holding court while the ceremony progressed. Aristocratic enemas were delicately tinted and scented. They were also so widely used as a means of poisoning that Louis XIV set up a special detective agency to combat the wave of enema-murders among his nobility...