Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...republic which had waged war against the Dutch, and which now formed the nucleus of the new federation. A Dutch-trained engineer, and an Asia-trained nationalist, he had spent 25 of his 49 years fighting for Indonesia's independence. The Japanese made him Indonesia's puppet ruler, and he collaborated with them; later he explained that he did it to teach his countrymen how to fight the white...
Handsome, auto-racing Prince Rainier III, 26, mounted the throne of the 370-acre kingdom of Monaco, which recently installed dice tables in its Monte Carlo casino to shake more dollars out of crap-shooting Americans. The youthful bachelor ruler succeeded his grandfather, Louis II, who died last...
...election day, was fine and most of those registered could get to the polls. In the morning papers, Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, the darling of Boston politics, came out in favor of John B. Hynes. By ten p.m. that night, James M. Curley, the aged and colorful ruler of the Boston political world, had been beaten by Hynes, the man who replaced him when he served his jail sentence...
Proclaiming her unshaken belief that the bones actually were those of the last Aztec ruler, Eulalia Guzman packed up for another trip to Ixcateopan. The red-faced Bank of Mexico kept its own counsel. One question remained unsolved: Was the hoax the work of a 20th Century man, or had it been perpetrated by some long-forgotten 16th Century prankster...
...show up its own readers, Le Figaro sprinkled nearby news columns with deliberate errors in geography. But the edition was hardly on the streets before phone calls from indignant readers began to. come in, denouncing the editors for taking a ruler to the French when they couldn't get things right themselves. By the time almost a hundred readers had caught a single error, Le Figaro's editors were ready to admit that 500 Frenchmen and 12 pollsters could be wrong...