Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keeping Our Shirt On." The regents' prayer, noted the magazine, "was really a rather limited, circumscribed prayer directed to a limited, circumscribed God." In its next session the court is expected to decide whether other religious expressions in school-such as Bible readings and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer-also breach the wall between church and state. The justices will have a variety of such practices to think about...
...species of headhunter" by Malcolm Cowley, she brought the likes of Lincoln Steffens, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein and Walter Lippmann together for discussions of Marx, Freud, birth control and anarchy, until tiring of city high life, she moved to Taos in 1917, proclaiming "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! ... I am here," married a Pueblo Indian, and settled down to write her Intimate Memories that outraged ("It makes me sick in my solar plexus," said D. H. Lawrence) her former friends...
...might be able to get it and said, 'John, I'm in a hell of a fix. I need you to deliver a quart of brandy to the kitchen of the Governor's mansion every day this week.' "Churchill had some fellow with him named Lord so-and-so, and the Lord had a girl in San Francisco and was always calling her up the whole time they were there. After they left, I got a bill for those calls for $250." Harry Byrd walks back into the Shoreham to change his clothes and cook...
...story was probably apocryphal, but the speed with which it made the rounds of Whitehall last week revealed the deep British exasperation at France's blocking tactics in Brussels. Just back from the talks, Britain's chief Market negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, could scarcely conceal his irritation with France over the stalemate on terms of Britain's Common Market membership...
...governments accord to religious groups. But what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts such influential leaders as British Biologist Julian Huxley and two Nobel prizewinners, British Agriculturist Lord Boyd Orr and U.S. Geneticist Hermann Muller...