Word: reigns
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...sick and raised the dead. Roberts also said that in the "world to come," he expected to return to Tulsa. He added, "I wouldn't be surprised if God did not bring me back to these 400 acres of Oral Roberts University he has built and would let me reign over these 400 acres...
...ceremony has changed little in the four centuries since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Last week her namesake traveled in an ornate carriage drawn by six gray horses to the Palace of Westminster in London. There, enthroned in the House of Lords and resplendent in a glittering crown containing a sapphire that belonged to Edward the Confessor and a ruby that Henry V wore at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, Queen Elizabeth II opened Parliament. The Lord Chancellor knelt and presented the Queen with her speech, a stilted discourse prepared by the Prime Minister, that outlined the government...
...coach," snapped the new leader of America's foremost collegiate football power, "I'm the president!" And he strode from the room. "That happened only once," recalls the 69-year-old Hesburgh, who is now preparing for his retirement; it will come next week, after a reign that is the longest and, by some accounts, the most distinguished of any major U.S. university head. The school he took over in 1952 was, according to Hesburgh's own blunt estimate, "ordinary." Since then...
This evidently didn't mean as much to Eisert, who succeeded Offutt at the mid-point of Melendez's reign as executive secretary. Eisert says he wanted to save money and looked for a work-study student to replace Melendez--but couldn't find...
When Peter Sellars '80 was an Adams House sophomore he asked Adams House master Richard Kiely for permission to clean up a trunk room in the basement. Kiely gave the now prominent director free reign and Sellars redid the room. Thus Harvard's first basement theater, called "Explosives B" after an explosives factory sign that Sellars had found, opened...