Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reign of "peace by terror," however, Bowles views as the fault of both parties. Democrats failed to adapt their foreign policy to the fact that European balances of power no longer guaranteed stability in the remainder of the world. And the Republicans, their presidential hopes shattered by the 1948 elections, grew tired of cooperating with Democrats in conducting a bipartisan foreign policy...
...Democrats sold the idea that they are the democratic party, when the only two spots in our land where tyranny and terror reign-the South and the labor unions-are their principal strongholds...
...equivalent to the communion between the Episcopalian Church and the Church of England. Ever since 1945 the U.S.S.R. has been wooing the patriarchs with offers of money-earning properties in Russia, gifts to monasteries, and free trips to Moscow. When Antioch Patriarch Alexandros III died last June, after a reign of 27 years, the Communists went to work to see that their man succeeded him. Their man: Syrian Archbishop Alexandros Ghea, smart, fiftyish, and educated in the Soviet Union...
...asked Harvard President Charles W. Eliot for permission to hire Harvard professors to teach young ladies. The ladies got their permission and hired their profs-and also female chaperons to sit beside them as they taught. The college prospered under Miss Comstock, but until the last year of her reign, she still had to lure Harvard faculty members each year to teach part time at Radcliffe. Then, in 1943, she outraged old Harvards, gave malicious delight to their Yale and Princeton acquaintances by negotiating the deal that allowed Radcliffe girls to attend Harvard classes, in effect brought coeducation to both...
Despite the dim view that University Hall may take of the Clubs, there is little likelihood that Harvard will ever officially abolish them. In the first place, the administration takes quite seriously Harvard's tradition of giving students free reign until they interfere with others...