Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the ten-year reign of Carol Hohenzollern two premiers were shot out from under him. The proud, nervous, chain-smoking King, who committed the supreme political folly of trying to give Rumania a regime of royal totalitarianism with no base among the masses, knew he faced death. If the train failed to stop it might be dynamited or derailed. Taking this chance, Carol ordered his engineer to stop for nothing. He roared through Timisoara station amid a hail of bullets which smashed many of the windows, missed occupants of the train who flung themselves on the floor, deeply scarred...
When Chanler Armstrong Chapman went to St. Paul's School in 1915, he had a family reputation to live down. His father (Literary Critic John Jay Chapman) had attended that haughty, Episcopalian institution during the reign of "the First Man of God"-the late, great Headmaster Henry Augustus Coit-and had been expelled because he went too far even for pious St. Paul's: in the midst of a cricket game he suddenly knelt and prayed in front of the wicket. Chanler never was expelled, but his conduct at St. Paul's was, if anything, worse than...
...would greatly prefer to say that we are safe in this country and in this hemisphere from outside danger. But I am firmly convinced that what is taking place today . . . is a relentless attempt to transform the civilized world . . . into a world in which lawlessness, violence and force will reign supreme. . . . The one and only sure way for our nation to avoid being drawn into serious trouble or actual war ... is for our people to become thoroughly conscious of the possibilities of danger, to make up their minds that we must continue to arm and to arm to such...
...contained no provision for the judiciary organization of the country, virtually no legislation governing finance, not even a definition of citizens' rights. The only point upon which the quarreling Royalists and Republicans could agree was specific legislation to protect the nation against a personal dictatorship. The late reign of Napoleon III still fresh in mind, the Assembly invested the Chamber of Deputies with extensive powers, enabling it to overturn the Government. Interpreting their Constitution broadly, leaving much to precedent, and ignoring certain parts of it (e.g., the law which gave the President, with the Senate approval, the right...
...German words and acts last week and this week pointed to the heart of France, rather than Britain, as the Nazi juggernaut's next immediate destination. High-flying waves of German bombers paraded over Paris, began a new reign of terror by showering heavy bombs at airfields, factories, railroads. Forty-five people were killed, 149 injured and thousands scared, including U. S. Ambassador Bullitt (see p. 30). Marseille and Lyon were raided by Germans looking for industrial objectives down the Rhone Valley...