Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amherst may seem like small-time opposition, and of course the Lord Jeffs, along with Williams and Wesleyan, are dubbed the Little Three in comparison with Harvard (and two other Ivy League schools). But there is nothing little about the way they play soccer: Wesleyan beat Ivy League champion Brown this week, 1-0, and Amherst has won three of its last five games with the Crimson...
...election year, when a "nay" might seem like a vote for atheism, Ev was confident that he could put the amendment over. Nor was he worried that Senate liberals might try to talk it to death. "Well, now," he said, "if anybody wants to filibuster the Lord...
Macmillan had approved of the famous letter of Lord Lansdowne to the London Times in 1917, suggesting in the midst of war that peace should be made before all was ruined. He had also learned in the trenches that what the top British call the "other ranks" were not without qualities that only officers were presumed to possess-courage, loyalty, humor and intelligence. As such, they were not to be exploited, and he brought this conviction with him into the House of Commons...
...pass attempts, Zimmerman had astonishing confidence and poise. After Harvard's initial drive trickled dead at the Lafayette 45-yard line, the Leopards' obligingly fumbled on their own 30-yard mark. Zimmerman then dropped back on first down (yup, first down) and plunked the ball cleanly into end Carter Lord's waiting arms for a touchdown with only six minutes gone in the game...
...Giovanni, and the guile of a Mephistopheles. For Rudolf Bing, it's all in a day's work. At 64, he is the undisputed lord of the manor, and he looks it. Though in physique (6 ft., 139 Ibs.) he resembles a patrician heron stuffed into herringbone, there is an impeccably correct bearing about him that says "Beware: regal and remote." His face and grey-fringed dome, all right-angle turns, are a study in parchment over steel. A Vienna-born English subject, he could easily pass as the British ambassador to Paris-a job that he wouldn...