Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work, his sense of humor often does the trick. Once, while touring the U.S., he was told by an American: "Frankly, I don't like the English." Replied Jim: "That's all right. I have a lot of trouble with them myself." In Labor's reign, he handled the tough Ministry of National Insurance, later was Secretary of State for the Colonies. Respected by both Attlee and Bevan, Griffiths last week was giving no indication that he had even heard the talk about him. In the confidence votes on rearmament, he voted stoutly with Attlee...
...took the stand) categorically denied that he had ever been a Communist or proCommunist. It minimized his influence on U.S. policymaking and said that actually he stood for containment of Communism, Point Four and peace. It berated the McCarran inquiry as "stacked" against him, accused it of launching "a reign of terror" against U.S. diplomats. Not since the late Harold Ickes had any polemicist turned on more derisive invective...
Under the reign of George VI, Britons learned to queue-tediously and inevitably-for food, for fun, for clothing, for travel, for life's necessities and life's rewards. Last week they queued for George himself. No one could measure or plot precisely the serpentine columns of human beings that formed and reformed, doubled, branched and coiled back again along London's streets and across chilly Thames bridges, to get a last glimpse of the dead King's coffin as it lay in medieval Westminster Hall. But before the week was out, Londoners had taken...
Indeed, says Trevelyan, the modern reader is weak where "his grandfathers were strong-the Bible stories and the classical stories . . . Milton's words-'That twice-battered god of Palestine'-would have been understood at once by the majority of people who read books in the reign of Victoria. I fear it would be obscure to many readers of today...
Victoria (1837-1901) had the longest reign in British history. After a lonely, overprotected childhood, she was awakened one night to be told that her uncle, William IV, was dead, and that she, at 18, was Queen. Three years later she married her shy, studious cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg, and bore him nine children, whose marriages allied England with the ruling houses of Germany, Russia, Greece and Rumania. In the first part of her reign, in the turbulent debates over the Reform Bill and during the unsettling changes of the Industrial Revolution, she quarreled frequently with her ministers...