Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yard dash until the Heptagonals, the last meet of the indoor season. And two of the top-distance runners, seniors Dave Alien and Walt Hewlett, were knocked out by a thesis and strained muscles, respectively. The two chief men in the weight events, sophomores Ron Wilson and Carter Lord, were promising but untried...
...Singewald, as the aged Countess of Rousillon, sends her young son off to the French court and reacts to his priggish follies with precisely the right air of elegantly detached concern. Anthony Dawson, as the old lord Lafeu, looks and moves as an old man should; in delivering what could be Polonius-like lines, he shuns both casualness and sententiousness. Peter Johnson, as young Count Bertram's follower Parolles, burlesques his role into an amusing Falstaff figure...
...Lord Nelson was an Englishman...
...full 44 years after independence before the Irish fulfilled the Dublin street ballad. Last week, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion, someone grandly pulled down (or, more literally, blew up) the top half of Lord Nelson's 134-ft. monument in the heart of Dublin. As W. B. Yeats predicted in his poem Easter, 1916, "All changed, changed utterly." Lord Nelson lay in a pile of rubble on O'Connell Street. Said the Dublin police, scarcely concealing their admiration: "An absolutely expert...
Public interest has focused on the Labour Government's proposals since the dramatic resignations of the Minister of the Navy and the First Sea Lord, in protest against the White Paper. Both men ostensibly opposed the purchase of fifty American F-111 swing-wing aircraft in lieu of building an aircraft carrier costing seventy million pounds. But objections to the defense policy run much deeper than the Royal Navy's rivalry with the Air Force...