Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reign of Terror." He had no malice -or at least he admits none now. In all his years around Washington, apparently the only person he disliked was Columnist Drew Pearson. "The punishment for noncooperation with Pearson can be quite terrible, as many public officials have found"-among them, he records, the late Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. George thinks the Pearson "reign of terror now one of the least inspiring aspects of the Washington spectacle...
This grisly old con-man of Mark Twain's imagining was soon proved a fraud and ended his brief reign riding out of a Mississippi River town on a rail. But the real-life claims of another pretender to the same identity were still in dispute last week. When he first arrived in Paris on May 26, 1833, he was a balding watchmaker with a thick mustache and a fringe of chin whiskers. His passport identified him as Karl Wilhelm Naundorff of Weimar, but the passport, its bearer promptly explained in almost incomprehensible French, was merely a blind; Karl...
...time of Eisenhower's selection, Columbia had been in an administrative declines for some time. In the last year of President Butler's long reign, he delayed many decisions, not wishing to bind his successor an he urged many professors to stay on beyond their retirement time, so that his successor could pick fresh...
...Gladwyn Jebb demanded scornfully: "Are we really to believe that the boys from Iowa or Colorado who are now sitting in foxholes near Chin-ju . . . are out, like Genghis Khan, to enslave the world? Show me any one of these U.S. soldiers, Mr. President, who would rather reign in Outer Mongolia than go back to Seattle, and I will gladly concede your point about 'imperialist America.' Until then...
...comes from the reign of good King Kamehameha I (1782-1819). According to legend, while chasing two fishermen, he caught his foot in a cracked rock, was whammed on the head by one of the fishermen with a canoe paddle, which splintered. Asked why he struck the King, the fisherman replied that he feared him because the King ruled through fear. Chastened Kamehameha pondered, then issued the decree that became the island's bill of rights until 1840, when Hawaii got its first constitution. In effect the law urged: "Respect your God. Respect also the small...