Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started in 1863. During a period of near-anarchy in Athens, a Greek delegation went to Denmark to beg King Christian IX to allow his son, Prince William George, to become their king. George I lasted on the throne for 50 years?until an assassin's bullet ended his reign. His son, Constantine I, had equally bad luck, was twice deposed by the politicians. Then came George II ("the unsmiling King"), who lost the throne to a republican coup in 1924, remained in exile for eleven years before returning, and went into exile again shortly after the Italians and Germans...
...report's severity, NASA Administrator James Webb did not dispute its findings. Instead, he accentuated the positive. "The board has found error, but it has also found the capability to overcome error," he said. Displaying a flash of the evangelical fervor that has characterized his six-year reign as NASA's boss-a job that the North Carolina born lawyer owed to his solid friendships with Lyndon Johnson and Oklahoma's late Senator Robert Kerr- Webb declared: "If any man in this room asks for whom the Apollo bell tolls, it tolls...
Juvenal wrote soon after the dark reign of the emperor Domitian, and the subject of his satires is the corruption in Rome of the last two decades of the first century. Consideration of man's folly in the things he prays for is his topic in "The Vanity of Human Wishes," and leads to the more positive question: what should man pray for? Lowell, obviously as disturbed as Juvenal about his age, though perhaps for slightly different reasons, asks a yet more basic question: can we, at this point, find it in us to pray at all? I return again...
Part of a System. Kuznetsov seems refreshingly careless about which official toes he steps on, and there is hardly a stereotyped opinion-or character-in the book on either side. His grandfather is pictured as first looking forward to the Nazi reign with something like enthusiasm, since he had never forgiven the Communists for robbing him "of his dream of getting rich" as "an entrepreneur." And although hatred for the Germans seethes through nearly every page, Kuznetsov also renders faithfully the few encounters with Germans who showed him or his family any kindness...
...ever stabbing the air with his long cigars, Rosenstiel only last August gave up the presidency to Scots-born John Mackie, 55. Schenley-Lorillard merger terms and management details still have to be approved by directors and stockholders, but Rosenstiel at last seems ready to end his rambunctious reign. "He screams at you one minute," recalls one former Schenley staffer, "and then loves you the next." Schenley survivors may respond readily to some steady Yellen...