Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LORD OF THE FLIES. With scarcely a nod to Novelist William Golding's chilling allegory of the essential evil in man's nature, the producers end up with little more than a scary adventure story about a band of castaway boys on a desert island...
...will have the unquestioning obedience of the Army's 26,000 commissioned officers and about 1,000,000 lads and lassies in the ranks. He is well schooled to command. His parents were Army majors, and all four of his own children have signed up to do the Lord's military service. Coutts himself entered the Army as a recruit in 1919, spent 15 years in street-corner evangelism, became one of the Army's best pamphleteers. Since 1957 he has served as territorial commander for the eastern part of Australia...
Important Patient on lonely Jura Island in the Hebrides. On a fishing outing far from London and the Denning report (see THE WORLD), Lady Astor, 31, beautiful third wife of Lord Astor, suddenly collapsed and was in danger of losing her second child, due in March. On doctor's orders, the former London fashion model, nee Bronwen Pugh, was hurried back to the mainland, rough seas or no, and rushed supine, but smiling, on a stretcher to a Glasgow nursing home...
...Eyre. Thomas Carlyle could not speak of Jamaican Negroes without being insulting: "Sitting with their beautiful muzzles up to their ears in pumpkins, imbibing sweet pulps and juices; their grinder and incisor teeth ready for every new work while the sugar crops rot." Only slightly less violent were Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Ruskin and Charles Dickens; Novelist Charles Kingsley proposed that Eyre should be elevated to the peerage...
...were punished, all other colonial peoples would be encouraged to rebel. The Jamaica Committee retorted that if Eyre were not punished, English liberties would be everywhere in jeopardy. The committee tried to bring Eyre to trial for murder, but they could never get an indictment, even though the Lord Chief Justice declared that Eyre had broken the law. Eventually the committee gave up. John Stuart Mill, Eyre's most implacable foe, was defeated for re-election to Parliament...