Word: reigns
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...after Leslie's death, his longtime lover, Daffy Tong Hok-tak, said that the star had tried killing himself with sleeping pills last November, and that he had been seriously depressed for 20 years. Twenty years! Back to the time of his first hit album; all through his reign as Canto-pop's top star and Hong Kong film's golden boy. If his eminence and allure could not make him happy, then he was a braver, more cunning artist than anyone suspected. Leslie Cheung danced before us, alluringly, and only let the seventh veil drop last week, revealing...
...scholarly histories and documentary films. Yet the gruesome orgy of self-vivisection carried out in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978 left behind far fewer records. History in Cambodia remains intertwined with legend, as it has since the classical era of Angkor, and the regime's reign of terror was hideously efficient, leaving very few survivors to give witness to the inner workings of the machinery of death...
...bold reform would characterize Lewis’ reign, showcasing his controlling and analytical style as well as his headstrong attitude in overcoming opposition...
...Special Republican Guard and the Special Security Organization, which would be suspected of hiding banned weapons--would be expected to hole up in greater Baghdad, which includes Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, 100 miles north of the capital. The Pentagon believes that the Iraqi dictator's 24-year reign would come to an end, one way or another, somewhere in that vicinity...
...Critically, Japan's new conscript armies were made accountable only to the Emperor, who was cast in the role of a living deity who would reign but not rule. Starting in the 1930s, Buruma writes, this "militarist monster" lurched from Manchuria to Pearl Harbor as factions of courtiers, generals and bureaucrats jostled for power, their decisions often driven by fanatical subordinates in the field...