Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political history. Under James J. Dworak, a bow-tied mortician before he became mayor in 1961, the city's pressing problems, from slum housing to rotting sewage pipes, were left to marinate in what the Omaha World-Herald called a "swamp of stagnation." Dworak's reign was marked instead by feuding with the police department, the mayor's indictment on charges of soliciting a $25,000 bribe (he was acquitted), an unsuccessful recall movement, and such ludicrous controversies as a hassle over the size of a G string worn by arrested Stripper Robin S. Hood. The Omaha...
...opponents of the Administration during the hearings was that the U.S. is ignoring the Chinese, driving them into implacable enmity and toward inevitably more aggressive policies. Only one of them, however, felt that the U.S. should not be in Viet Nam at all and should let the Chinese reign in their own "sphere of influence." He was the University of Chicago's Hans Morgenthau, a long-term critic of U.S. Viet Nam policies, who declared last week that all of Asia is China's proper sphere and disdained military containment of the Chinese as a step that will...
...cast of 1,000 people who are least likely to get into Who's Who, Kenneth Rexroth, last of the old bohemians, crams the stage of a crowded autobiography. Fortunately, the old political evangelist ceases to wave the flags of social revolt in favor of chronicling the reign of a minor king of the Big Rock Candy Mountain...
Court tennis, however has remained almost unchanged. The only major modification occured during the reign of Henry VIII in England. Formerly, there was a small window, "la lune" or "the moon," high up on the wall, and a ball hit through it gave several extra points...
...Rexroth. With a cast of 1,000 people least likely to get into Who's Who, Kenneth Rexroth, last of the old bohemians, crams the stage of a crowded biography. Fortunately, the old political evangelist ceases to wave the flags of social revolt in favor of chronicling the reign of a minor king of the Big Rock Candy Mountain...