Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tracts beneath their flowing djellabahs. Thirteen-year-old girls signed up in clandestine cells of the Istiqlal Party. And in a Moroccan version of Lysistrata, thousands of Moroccan women denied themselves to their husbands for two years for fear of bringing into the world children born under the shameful reign of the Sultan's French-appointed successor, Ben Moulay Arafa...
...Then? Haile Selassie himself had been solely responsible for bringing his backward people closer to the trend of the times. In his speech from the throne, the Emperor summed up some of the accomplishments of his 27-year reign: the adoption of his nation's first constitution, its first popular elections, the inauguration of public welfare, health and education programs. "If we had not provided our people with the opportunity for developing their knowledge," he asked, "who then could have commended or criticized our activities...
...hymning San Francisco's charms in suitably breezy prose, Sacramento-born Herb Caen (rhymes with reign) has long enjoyed the title "Mr. San Francisco," and one of the most faithful followings of any local columnist in the U.S. (TIME, July 1). On his three-block walk in 1950, Caen took with him 10,000 to 15,000 readers. The upward-struggling Chronicle (circ. 190,045), which has run six columnists in Caen's space without filling the gap, hopes that Herb's homecoming will draw an extra 30,000 circulation and regain some of the advertising that...
...Decline and Fall of Institutions : "a perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse." Is the tourist awestruck before St. Peter's in Rome? The Popes "lost half their authority while the work was still in progress." The reign of Louis XIV, the "Sun King," began to set shortly after he settled at Versailles. On the shores of Lake Geneva stands the finest mausoleum since the Taj Mahal the Palace of the Nations, which opened in 1937 when the League of Nations "had practically ceased to exist...
...break the pro-Stout majority on the five-man board of regents by adding four anti-Stout men. When the state supreme court declared that such appointments were the province of the governor only, Governor Charles H. Russell promptly reappointed the same men. After that, Stout's reign was clearly near its end-and last week the end came...