Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Interests." After this resolute clearing of the ground, Governor Bricker proceeded to build his own foreign-policy platform. He came out flatly for U.S. participation in "a cooperative organization of sovereign nations. . . . The major purpose of such an institution must be to establish a reign of law among nations. . . . Personally, I have always felt that the United States should join the World Court...
...cried Socialist Harold J. Laski in 1940. The British professor, making a routine denunciation of the Bank of England (much as a New Dealer attacks Wall Street), hoped then that "the reign of Montagu the Norman" would now "ebb peacefully to its close...
Four years later the reign ebbed. Last week, after a quarter of a century in which he dominated every move of the world's greatest banking institution, Montagu Collet Norman, 73, resigned the Governorship of the Bank of England, and prepared to go into permanent retirement...
Founded in 1694 in the reign of King William of Orange, expressly to make credit available to that hard-pressed monarch in his wars with the French, the Bank of England is the heart and center of Britain's far-flung financial system. Under its leadership the pound sterling became, in the 19th Century, a universal currency...
...compare him with Maurel. But they did admit that vocally Warren had an edge on Tibbett's now rather threadbare version, and that the newcomer made Shakespeare's amorous fat man a likable and believable character. It looked as though the Met's fourth Falstaff might reign for some time...