Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was a tantalizing glimpse of flexibility: Iran's new President, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, offered to "help" find a solution to the hostage problem, thus raising the hope that Bush will not be boxed in by the implacable hostility of Iran as his predecessors were during the reign of the late Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
Reflecting his fragile alliance with the Khmer Rouge, Sihanouk pointed to the communist ultras as a major stumbling block to peace and reminded journalists that they killed five of his children and 14 grandchildren during their reign of terror...
Thus calmly and apparently bloodlessly, the three-year-old civilian government of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi was toppled late last week. Although the timing was unexpected, the coup came as no surprise. The armed forces had demonstrated unusual restraint during the Prime Minister's ineffectual reign, which neither advanced a political settlement in the savage six-year-old civil war nor dealt with the country's vicious poverty and famine. Speaking for the rebellious forces, Brigadier Omar Hassan Ahmed el Bashir said el Mahdi had "wasted the country's time and squandered its energies with much talk and policy...
Voices in Congress and around Washington denounced an ethics reign of terror that is destroying reputations and perhaps driving good people from government. "It's genuinely frightening -- worrisome," says Thomas Mann, a congressional observer for the Brookings Institution. "The intensive moralizing has painted the House as utterly corrupt. It damages the institution and the environment of the Washington community...
...wrong with it." Stead's celebrated book was indeed lengthy and imperfect. But it had at its center an unforgettable father figure whose weakness and tyrannical urges were disguised by forced jollity. Francis Clemmons, the dear old dad of Joan Chase's lyric second novel (her first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also has an unnerving gift of gab. " 'We're walking farther into this rotting grave and shall we ne'er get out?' " is the sort of banter his children would hear while riding piggyback...