Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished successor George VI as duke rather than king. There, in hard-pressed moments, islanders still look for aid to William's great ancestor Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. Rollo, it is said, was so just and severe a prince that during his early loth Century reign a farmer could leave a plow in an open field with no fear of theft...
...after a conference with Christian Socialist Premier-designate Paul van Zeeland, was broadcast first in a somewhat heavy French, for Wallonia, where Leopold had lost in the March 12 plebiscite; then in a thin, nervous Flemish, for Flanders, which had voted for his return. Leopold recognized that he should reign again only with the approval of a "great majority" (he got an overall 57.68% in the plebiscite), and with the "loyal support of all political groups...
...Papa," said the boy Leon Blum, "how dare you sell your ware for more money than you paid for it?" There is no record of Papa Blum's answer; of Alsatian Jewish stock, a Parisian merchant in the reign of Napoleon III, he went right on selling laces and ribbons for a tidy profit. But son Leon rebelled against what he later called the dishonesty and decay of bourgeois capitalism...
Tongans could celebrate Queen Salote's birthday with good reason. In her 32 years' reign, Salote has capably and efficiently continued the tradition of a peaceful Polynesian dynasty-that has ruled...
Princeton sophomore Bob Brawner ended the three-year reign of Joe Verdeur of Lasalle in the 200-yard breaststroke...