Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pointing out that he had no further personal ambition, he raised his right hand high, and cried in an echo of the flowing Barkley style: "I'm glad to sit in the back row. I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty-"* Then, with the roar of applause and cheers from the 1,200 students ringing through the hall, Alben William Barkley, 78, slumped to the stage, dead of a heart attack...
Brownell's Puppet? Lyndon Johnson, relaxed, affable, appearing to enjoy the brawl, moved tirelessly around the state on handshaking tours, cracking at Shivers as a "Little Lord Fauntleroy with no place to go." Learning that Republican Attorney General Herbert Brownell had gone secretly to Woodville for a conference with Shivers last month, Johnson cried: "Allan Shivers is nothing but a puppet in Brownell's hands." Blasting away even more lustily was angry Sam Rayburn, who described the Shivers campaign as "rat alley politics" and called Shivers himself a "frustrated, unhappy, desperate man who knows he's going...
...heat of the conference room in Paris' Palais de Chaillot, the 15 NATO foreign ministers seemed to have many ideas about what NATO should not do, very few about what it should. "We have no solid idea of what to pursue," admitted NATO's able Secretary General Lord Ismay. "Some people seem to think that we need work to do to keep us out of mischief...
...students are perpetually in revolt against authority, he feels the most important thing is to avoid "harassing them" with morality and theological pedantry. "They think we're very moral," he says, "and are afraid we're going to prevent them from experimenting. But remember that Saint Augustine once said, "Lord, let me be pure, but not just...
...calmly. Seated firmly behind his Washington desk, listening to politicians warn him that his policies are going to lose the election, Secretary Benson glanced often at a motto, in small type, pasted to the marble base of his pen and pencil set, where only he could see it. "Oh Lord," it says, "give us men with a mandate higher than the ballot...