Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't a losing season, but it might as well have been." Thus coach Bill McCurdy evaluated the 1959 cross country campaign, the worst in his long and successful reign. In dual and triangular meets, the varsity had a seemingly respectable 4-3 record, but the Crimson actually won only when a loss was inconceivable...
...conciliatory toward the West, since, internationally, the Soviets are leading from several weaknesses. There are the natural aspirations of the Russian people, after 42 years of Communist rule, for a better life and freedom; there is Soviet awareness that, while by force and through intermediaries, "it may reign over Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, Prussia and Saxony, it has not won them over...
...victory in 1949, but the Crimson won in 1950, 14 to 13, on Dike Hyde's extra point, after Lowenstein's running and passing had brought the team from behind. The two rivals split in 1951 and 1952, and the Crimson's 1953 win intervened before Brown began its reign of power...
During all his 55 years on the throne-the longest reign of any living monarch -it sometimes seemed as if King Sisavang Vong of Laos had found a way to survive history simply by ignoring it. He never openly fought for independence from the French, but instead of earning the resentment of his people, he won only greater affection. When the French urged him to take a firmer stand against the Japanese in World War II, he patiently explained: "My people do not know how to fight; they only know how to sing and make love." Later he proved equally...
Horror and consternation reign in the daffy duchy, whose rulers had not intended to win the war at all but to lose it. The whole object was to get rich quick on U.S. appropriations for war relief...