Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jungle. Racers have been known to ram each other off mountain curves, to strew tacks in the road behind them, to urinate into the wind so that it blows back in the eyes of their opponents. So taxing is the sport that few champions enjoy a long reign...
...rulers practice dictatorship while preaching democracy. On paper, the Soviet Union has a model constitution, guaranteeing all citizens freedom of speech and assembly, a free press, and equality under the law. In fact, as intended by Joseph Stalin, who introduced the constitution at the height of his reign of terror in 1936, it is a meaningless document because the Kremlin can and does ignore it at will...
...tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me nothing personally but headaches," said Shah Mo hammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran to the Na tional Press Club. "During the whole of these 20 years of my reign, I have continually lived under the strain and stress of my duties." In the past two decades, said the Shah, he had been the target of several assassination attempts, been vilified by "elements of international sub version," turned over 90% of his private fortune to be used "for the benefit of my people." As he moved from Washing...
...even more severe test of Barth's theological assumptions was World War I, which ended man's cocky dream of inevitable progress toward a reign of universal peace. Barth, who disapproved of Switzerland's vacillating neutralist politics, was shocked when the church in Germany approved the war policy of Kaiser Wilhelm II; not one of his theological teachers protested. Barth's contempt for this display of their social thinking led him to a reappraisal of their theology. In company with another disillusioned liberal pastor, Eduard Thurneysen, Barth went back over all his past theological and philosophical...
...rabble bawls and dances, fights and fornicates all over the house, the leper puts a record on the gramophone, and suddenly with supernal irony the scene of chaos is explained and sanctified by a great chorus roaring triumphantly to Handel's music: "And He shall reign forever and ever!" Seldom in cinema has the nature of revolution been realized with such profundity and expressed with such power. Bunuel indulges in no sentimentality about "the masses." Rabble is rabble to him; the mob is a beast with many heads that destroys both good and evil, that overwhelms humanity with animality...