Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, changes Premiers as casually as other men change suits. In Teheran last week, he courteously turned out Assadollah Alam, the 17th Premier in the Shah's 22-year reign, and appointed as Premier No. 18 elegant Hassanali Mansur, who holds a degree in economics and political science from Paris University and is married to an Iranian beauty and heiress named Farideh Emami...
...closely approached a police state." When Rockefeller signed the bills anyway, another organization, made up largely of lawyers and called the Emergency Committee for Public Safety, attacked the new laws as "the worst police state measures ever enacted in the history of our nation-ominously dangerous enactments threatening a reign of unrestrained terror in our state...
...think I feel better," he said. A few hours later, he died. Her eyes red-rimmed from lack of sleep, Queen Frederika kissed her dead husband, then tearfully turned to her son, now King Constantine II, and said: "May you reign with his benediction...
...salute. Women wept in the streets, and only funeral dirges were played on the radio. Throughout Athens, Greece's blue and white flag flew at half-staff for King Paul of the Hellenes, who died of thrombosis in the lungs last week at 62, after a 17-year reign that had seen Greece rise from destitution and civil war to become one of the most stable states in Europe...
...reign of William the Conqueror, who introduced Norman customs of jurisprudence to England, men called jurors reported on property owners to the king's tax collectors. The local Saxons never considered jury trials when it came to meting out criminal justice, but they gave a defendant the chance to find twelve men- who would swear that his oath was reliable. It was not until the 12th century that King Henry II sponsored the first juries in civil cases. If a verdict was upset on review, the original jurors were automatically considered guilty of perjury and fined or imprisoned. About...