Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good Lord have mercy on you," said Lyndon Johnson-and, under the circumstances, the benediction seemed appropriate. Johnson was speaking to the man he had just nominated as head of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver, who will be the first Negro to sit in the Cabinet. Weaver, 58, will preside over the Federal Government's first comprehensive attack on the problems of metropolitan areas, which now contain 70% of the nation's people, are expected to double in population by the end of the century. If he takes his job seriously, even...
...ancient world, which had no concept of a regular weekly respite from work. Taking their cue from Biblical evidence that God rested on the seventh day of creation, Jews from the earliest days kept Saturday sacred as a time to abstain from manual labor and pray to the Lord God of Israel. The early Christians kept the principle, but gradually shifted the time of observance to Sunday. It proved sound against such onslaughts as the French Revolution's attempt to establish a ten-day week, and colonialism carried it around the world. Now Sunday is almost universal...
...Park Avenue physician, Mrs. Tuchman proved in Guns that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord...
...drive in London behind a well-matched pair," and nobody wanted "to think about making money, only about spending it." In office at Westminster was "the last government in the Western world to possess all the attributes of aristocracy in working condition." Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, was dedicated to the principle that a nation should be ruled by its "natural" leaders -those with fortune and position so secure "that the struggles for ambition are not defiled by the taint of sordid greed." His successor was his nephew, Arthur Balfour, a languid genius with so exquisitely...
Wayne Anderson, the defending Heptagonal sprint champion, has been off his form so far this winter. He will team with Robinson and either Carter Lord or Andy Cahners in the 45-yard dash...