Word: lord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everybody worked for me. How many people? Good Lord, come on! These people are high-ranking officials. They have to be people who can accept their responsibilities. They must use their discretion. I can't go around and check everybody. They're not children...
...LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR by Paul West (Doubleday; $19.95). A brilliant tour de force about the cruelty of genius, starring Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary (author of Frankenstein) and the narrator, an indiscreet physician...
...also had qualities that were to prove indispensable -- courage, eloquence, energy and a passionate determination to save British democracy. No sooner had the Germans invaded Poland than Chamberlain reluctantly invited his chief critic to No. 10 Downing Street and asked him to join the Cabinet; Churchill thereupon became First Lord of the Admiralty. "Churchill in the Cabinet," Goring said when he heard the news. "That means war is really...
...must see reason. In a speech to the Reichstag, he jeered at the idea of Churchill's fighting on in Canada, but he offered to make peace. "I can see no reason why this war must go on," he said. Churchill decided not even to answer, leaving it to Lord Halifax to declare, "We shall not stop fighting until freedom is secure." Hitler was again lying. Just three days before his "peace speech" on July 19, he had officially told his commanders, "I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England...
Though Hitler had made no pretense of declaring war on Poland -- with which he had signed a ten-year nonaggression pact in 1934 -- the British and French response to his attack was glacial in its formality. Not until 10 a.m. did the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, summon the German charge d'affaires to ask if he had any explanation for this "very serious situation." The charge admitted only that the Germans were defending themselves against a Polish attack...