Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Society has often had doubts about intermarriage between the generations. The Talmud warns that "the Lord will not pardon him" who marries his daughter to an old man or takes a wife for his infant son. Literature abounds with bawdy cautionary tales describing the jealous geriatric husband and his ripe, relentless bride. For all the sniggers, though, older men have historically married much younger women. Given the hazards of childbearing until 50 or 60 years ago, it was not unusual for a man to bury one or two young wives. In those days, death provided the variety now offered...
...ugly type. The variety is in the typography; some pieces are set two columns to a page of very small type, some are set one column of very large type, one has unjustified (uneven) lines of very large type. The type, someone said, looks like it comes from the Lord and Taylor catalogue, long and thin and soul-less...
...taking on Hargis," said a council spokesman, Faith Pomponio, "but as a way of communication with his people." In fact, most of Tulsa's Protestant clergymen were cordial, and Republican Mayor James Hewgley was almost lyrical in his welcome: "The Lord sent them here." Even Hargis paid the council a backhanded compliment. "The cause of religious fundamentalism," he complained, has been "set back ten years in Tulsa...
...Good Lord!" scribbled Alan Eddy in his diary. "Why the heck did I do this?" At the time, Eddy, a systems analyst from Scarsdale, N.Y., was alone in mid-Pacific aboard his 30-ft. ketch Apogee, heaving through heavy seas on a 39,000-mile voyage around the world...
Because of his competitive, hard-driving temperament, David English, as sociate editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, is admiringly referred to as a "flyer." That temperament served English well when he and a team of top Express reporters set out to produce a book on the 1968 U.S. presidential election. Divided They Stand (Prentice-Hall, $6.95) is not only the first full-length study of that memorable race. It is also brisk, readable and sharply focused, with a detached perspective that injects freshness into familiar events...