Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reign of the new board has been mostly quite, as few controversial issues have come up since the election. Student opinion was described as "apathetic" and the faculty was expressed no overt opinion--except for the Journalism school whose faculty by and large violently opposed the change...
...into California politics as a state legislator in 1938, and served four terms in Congress before running for mayor. Against Poulson, an honest but undistinguished politico, Bowron was deprived of a campaign weapon which had served him well in the past: predicting direly that sin and corruption would reign unless he was elected. He campaigned, instead, against the powerful Los Angeles Times, which threw its support to Poulson. By describing Poulson as the "puppet" of Times Publisher Norman Chandler, Fletcher Bowron made the race close-but not close enough. The vote: Poulson 287,619, Bowron...
Over all of the realms, Elizabeth II will reign but not govern; as a constitutional monarch, her political rights were classically defined by Political Scientist Walter Bagehot in 1867, as three: "to be consulted, to encourage, to warn." In addition, as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, "she is also heir to all our united strength and loyalty . . . Thus we go forward, moving together in freedom and hope, spread across the oceans and under every sky and climate though...
KING GEORGE THE FIFTH. HIS LIFE AND REIGN (570 pp.)-Harold Nicolson-Doubleday...
akes a long, romantic, Technicolored look, not at the public reign of Elizabeth the Queen, but at the private life of Elizabeth...