Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Klanonyms. Klansmen appeared as self-appointed judges, juries and executioners. They resumed the reign of terror against Negroes. They tarred and feathered men and women-white and black-whom they suspected of illicit sexual relations, and lynched, mutilated or lashed hundreds of others. They tortured Jewish shopkeepers, whom they accused of massive international financial conspiracies; they published a spurious Knights of Columbus "oath" that portrayed Roman Catholics as villainous conspirators against the U.S. Their bedsheets became robes emblazoned with ornate embroidery, and they invented a whole new thesaurus of Klanonyms. There were the Kleagle and the Klabee, the Kladd...
...reign began auspiciously. Farouk diligently toured Egypt and was acutely aware of the crushing, age-old poverty of the fellahin. On the advice of his Oxford-educated tutor, Ahmed Hassaneen Pasha, Farouk became interested in social reform. In the war years, Farouk and Hassaneen regularly toured bombed areas of Cairo and Alexandria...
Blaine represents fatuity where sophistication and sincerity should reign. There is a moral crisis on this and many other campuses. Much painful and complicated soul searching is going on. If the Chief of the Harvard Psychiatric Service had sufficient command of contemporary philosophy, sufficient understanding of the Freudianism he popularizes so crudely, he might serve as a legitimate preceptor for this community. Instead he spouts mindless cliches, offers frightened and frightening prescriptions, and debases an issue which is far more profound and serious than the good doctor, I fear, will ever realize...
...that she was short a suit here, a dress there, decided where she could double up on one dress and where she couldn't." On long evening gowns, doubling up was well-nigh impossible; Ann took off for Washington with ten, two more than Mrs. Duke started her reign with...
...King and His Court casts doubt on De Gaulle's infallibility, but it leaves no doubt of his ascendancy over the government and imagination of France. With little profundity--and little desire to be profound--Pierre Viansson-Ponte daubs a diverting portrait of a democratic reign and the motley entourage that supports...