Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marched toward the police. A police captain demanded their parade permit. They had none. Seeing the fire hoses, they knelt in silence as a Negro minister solemnly began to pray: "Let them turn their water on. Let them use their dogs. We are not leaving. Forgive them, O Lord." Suddenly, inexplicably, in a moment of overt mercy, Bull Connor waved the Negroes through the police line. He allowed them 15 minutes of hymns and prayer in a small park near the city jail; inside, behind bars, hundreds of other Negroes could hear the singing. Returning to the church, the demonstrators...
...English beauty was married to Gentleman Golfer Charles Sweeny, for whom, the gossip columnists insisted, she had jilted the young Earl of Warwick. That same year Ian Campbell made headlines by taking as his second wife Louise Vanneck. daughter of U.S. Sculptor Henry Clews. (His first: Janet Aitken. Lord Beaverbrook's daughter.) Though unmentioned in the song, Campbell was even more Top than Mrs. Sweeny. In 1949 he became Duke of Argyll (family motto: "Forget Not"), Chief of Clan Campbell, Hereditary Master of the King's Household in Scotland, Admiral of the Western Coasts and Isles. Hereditary Sheriff...
...special blessing, continued vision, strength and wisdom to fulfill their great responsibility as informers and formers of the public mind. Grant that in all the hectic pressures of their calling they may preserve its ideals of truth, integrity and fairness. We offer Thee our heartfelt thanks, O Lord, as we count the blessings of TIME'S 40 fruitful years." The cardinal then read a telegram from the Vatican: "Holy Father Pope John XXIII requests Your Eminence to convey his greetings to the assembly, expressing prayerful hope that the meeting may further the cause of peace and brotherhood of mankind...
...that America died because its spiritual wellsprings dried up, due to the fact the churches were fighting over the wrong issues. The gut issue is what the church will do to keep John. Mary. Billy and Susie Doe lashed to the Cross and made into happy servants of the Lord Christ...
...tale invites comparison with those classics of darkened childhood, Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Novelist Gloag has named his adult villain Captain Hook, presumably after J. M. Barrie's piratical menace in Peter Pan. One does not have to believe in fairies, however, to give cold credence to the awful reality of Gloag's matriolatrous, patricidal tribe of tots...