Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tears welled in the eyes of Maurice Macmillan, 42, the Prime Minister's son. Acting Prime Minister Butler stared emotionlessly across the auditorium. House Leader and Party Co-Chairman Iain Macleod slumped in his chair until his chin rested on his chest. Minister for Science Lord Hailsham was poker-faced. But Macmillan's announcement stripped away all pretense of a gentlemanly team decision to name his successor...
...elected for two months; at week's end the London bookies were laying 7 to 4 against his becoming Prime Minister. Maudling (6 to 1 against), who appeared doubtful that the Tories can win in any case, not unhappily began to fade as a serious contender. Lord Home (10 to 1 against) wouldn't say yes and wouldn't say no, but had weighty support among the party's elder statesmen (and, reportedly, Macmillan...
...important to the party's future as his New Conservatism were "Rab's Boys," the bright young back-room protégés whom Butler enlisted to help formulate policy. Among them: Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, House Leader and Party Co-Chairman Iain Macleod, Lord Privy Seal Ted Heath. According to a House of Commons quip, "Rab gave Macmillan his brains...
...program of reform for Britain's Dickensian prison system. Since 1962, when he was named First Secretary of State, Butler has supervised a variety of thankless tasks, notably mapping independence for the three states of the Central African Federation. He is outspokenly pro-American and, with Foreign Secretary Lord Home, has probably been the staunchest Cabinet advocate of British membership in President Kennedy's "mixed manned" multilateral force...
Most Southern churches insist upon rebaptizing converts from other Christian denominations before admitting them to "closed" Communions. The more liberal American Baptists allow anyone who accepts Jesus as Lord to take Communion in their churches. Northern Baptists favor interfaith cooperation; the Southern Baptists are the largest Protestant group not in the National Council of Churches...