Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your comment that "economists collectively have far more influence than Keynes & Co. could ever have dreamed of [June 26]," Lord Keynes stated in 1935: "The ideas of economists and political philosophers are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly...
...Gushing, 68, let it be known that "eight years ago" (actually, it was 1954), he was operated on for the removal of a cancerous kidney, an area in which malignancy is fatal 63% of the time. "They gave me eight months to live," he said. "Somehow I survived. The Lord chooses the foolish to confound the wise...
...Tory M.P. has heard so many tales of hardship from his constituents that last month he asked for a Home Office investigation of the sect. But difficult as their new way of life may be, the rest of the Brethren have followed Taylor, convinced that to live with the Lord means not to live with other...
...showroom, found store owners back home far from bold, and plenty worried. Hess's Department Store, in Allentown, Pa., faced picket lines of women (WE DRAW THE LINE, read the placards), was stuck with a shipment and the likelihood of few, if any, sales. Manhattan's Lord & Taylor changed its mind even before the suits arrived. "They will be sealed up immediately," said the store's president, Melvin Dawley, "and shipped to the poor." More sophisticated Western ladies snapped up models available in San Francisco stores and over the warnings of local clergymen that "nakedness and paganism...
...Lord Harlech (William David OrmsbyGore), British Ambassador to the U.S.-LL.D...