Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view, he cherished an "image of the Russians as a simple people, clothed in a peculiar virtue compiled of poverty, helplessness, and remoteness from worldly success-a mass of mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the German captor." The real boot, of course, was the Soviet reign of terror; Lenin and Trotsky, between hasty Kremlin lunches "of salt pork, buckwheat grits, and red caviar," were stamping out all political opposition. Wilson might never have heeded Anglo-French pleas for intervention had it not been for "sentimental" considerations involving the Czechs, to whose postwar birth as a nation Wilson...
...these leveling times when British professional men clip their own boxwood and their wives push their own prams, London exhibits no district more decorous and decorative than St. John's Wood. But in Queen Victoria's gilded reign a century ago, this first of the city's garden suburbs had another reputation. Then noble Britons liked to steal away from their confining Mayfair mansions and visit leafy little hideaways in St. John's Wood. There George IV and Napoleon III kept their well-hidden mistresses; beauteous Lily Langtry waited for Edward VII at 20 Wellington Road...
Away with Illusions. Wilson's reign has had its dark spots. The student paper is still automatically censored because it came out against the Harris natural-gas bill, and the case of Coed Barbara Louise Smith-the soprano who was removed from the leading role in Dido and Aeneas because some legislators objected to the fact that she is a Negro (TIME, May 20) -still rankles. But in general, Logan Wilson has, fortunately, no illusions about how far his university must go. "I think," says he, "we need frankly to face up to the fact that our competitive academic...
...morning on Mott St., this crisis signals the end of one of New York's most colorful institutions. On Hester and Thompson Streets, Belmont Avenue and Prospect Place the cries of hawkers competed with the horns of frustrated motorists, tomatoes and fishtails decorated the curbs, and the hand-scale reign undisputed. In the hot days of July ices-and-syrup went at a nickel a cup to kids tossing a Spaulding above heads too busy to notice them, and in December the chestnut men huddled in doorways while their cookers sent up thin jets of steam into the frenzied...
Conant said that the questions, "How did it happen? Why did it happen? and Will it happen again?" must be answered about the rise and reign of Hitler. After nothing the importance of the school-master in German life, Conant asked, "How did this phenomenon (Hitler) arise in such a highly educated nation...