Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the support of such popular stalwarts as Minister for Science Lord Hailsham and Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, both of whom kept their jobs, Douglas-Home has already set in motion new government programs aimed at deflating Labor's claim to be the only reform party. Forestalling Labor's pledge to install a planning czar to direct the economy, Douglas-Home switched Lord Privy Seal Ted Heath, his able, longtime foreign-policy spokesman in the Commons, to an ambitious new Ministry for Industry, Trade and Regional Development. Armed with a long-awaited committee report urgently recommending...
...sparkling Cockaigne Overture, a disappointing Death and Transfiguration, a warm and distinguished Beethoven Seventh. Sir John's greying mane shook in a fury of excitement at every climax. Over his leprechaun's face passed fleeting expressions of sweet affection, wistful pleading and stout, unfailing pride, rather like Lord Nelson...
...rare and felicitous talent: he can make St. Paul sound as contemporary as the preacher down the street. Seeking to "transmit freshness and life across the centuries," Phillips produced a New Testament in Modern English that abandoned archaisms in favor of unadorned clarity and read more like Lord Jim than King James...
...fluoridation spiel, translating it: "And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities." Phillips recaptures the original sense with his phrasing: "It was I who gave you hungry mouths in all your cities." And in Micah 6:16, where the King James has the Lord meaninglessly warning "that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing," Phillips has the sensible "and they compel me to bring you to ruin, and make your inhabitants an object of scorn...
Died. Walter Francis Dillingham, 88, Hawaii's premier citizen, lord of a $150 million empire; of a heart attack; in Honolulu (see THE NATION...