Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having so crisply and accurately described Stalin's reign, Pravda added that of course it didn't mean Stalin: "The circumstances of wartime made possible certain peculiarities in the methods of leadership which in certain degree were justified." But, it continued, "leaders cannot take a critical statement aimed at them as a personal offense...
...week at his hard-working routine. He was up in the morning at 6:30, and often the light in his study above St. Peter's Square was burning at midnight. Yet Eugenio Pacelli, still as slim and erect as a brigadier in the 15th year of his reign, is also in the 78th year of his life, and so, among Rome's churchmen, the talk is of his successor...
Protest. A fortnight ago, Burma formally asked the U.N. to condemn the Nationalist government on Formosa for an act of aggression, and accused its armies of preying on the countryside and instituting a "veritable reign of terror-looting, pillaging, raping and murdering." The Burmese said that the original Li Mi force of 1,700 men had been built up into an army of 12,000 by local recruiting, and was now commanded by Chinese Nationalist General Liu Kuo-chuan. The whereabouts of General Li Mi was now something of a mystery: the Nationalists say he is in Formosa recovering from...
...take me from my country, and she will not stand in my way if I want to return." Said Magda: "Although Carol is dearer to me than life ... I have always been prepared to make any sacrifice for him." In 1930, Parliament proclaimed him King, dating his reign back to his father's death...
...knots and queues at news kiosks. Shortly after 8 o'clock the papers arrived, full of meticulous details. The Russians, like the rest of the world, were being told more intimate facts about Stalin in his death throes than they had learned in all his 29 years of reign...