Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beating Spahn, Milwaukee's 21-game winning ace, was an important step for the Yankees. Most observers figured 36-year-old Spahn has to win two games to end the Bombers' reign...
...where his voice, broadcast by the BBC, carried on a clarion call for resistance to those he left behind. Thousands turned out in a driving rain to greet him when he returned home in 1945, and the re-enthroned King, sensing his people's wishes, began his new reign by rejecting all pleas for clemency for the traitor Quisling, who was tried and promptly executed...
When Bishop Latimer was about to burn at the stake for his Protestant loyalties (during the reign of Catholic "Bloody Mary" Tudor), he not only spoke one of history's most famous lines but defined an age: "We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as shall never be put out." The Reformation was an age of flame, lit both by candles and by faggots, by holiness and horror. Materialist-minded historians have no trouble tracing economic pressures and class struggles in the Reformation, yet it remains above all a conflict...
...Washington, hazel-eyed, 19-year-old Ruth Eisenhower, daughter of Johns Hopkins' President Milton Eisenhower, jotted a new entry on her crowded September calendar: after her debut in Baltimore and before she returns for her sophomore year at Swarthmore College, she will reign as queen of the annual Potomac River President's Cup Regatta...
This Elizabethan description of nomadic Persians (from Hakluyt's Principal Voyages) would have been accurate in the time of Herodotus (circa 484-425 B.C.) and was still accurate in A.D. 1926, when Persia's modern-minded Reza Shah Pahlavi began his reign, set about freeing the women of their veils, ordered the men into Western suits and decided that nomadic existence was "a blot on his progressive country." Harried by the Shah's troops, the nomadic tribes "settled," but in 1941, when Reza was forced to abdicate after the Allies moved into Persia, the tribes went back...