Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Security Council blocked any action against India's aggression in Goa, Adlai Stevenson, recalling the League of Nations' failure to oppose aggression, gloomily warned: "We are witnessing the first act in a drama which could end with [the U.N.'s] death." British Foreign Secretary Lord Home, criticizing the U.N. action against Katanga, warned that Britain might withdraw its financial support. In Washington there were demands for congressional investigation of U.S. policies toward...
...Finally, about 1920, he met the Italian collector Count Contini-Bonacossi in Rome. Kress decided on the spot that he would some day have a collection as good as the count's. Soon he was the friend of Bernard Berenson, and eventually the client of the ubiquitous Lord Duveen...
...traditional richness of the church. "The revival," says Dr. Edgar S. Brown Jr., executive director of the department of worship for the United Lutheran Church in America, "has made the church aware that there is a unity of the order of worship that includes both preaching and the Lord's Supper, and that these two cannot be divorced...
...army of admirers, and off and on for 30 years beat back the Moslem armies. Though generally far outnumbered, he never lost a battle, and did more than any man of his time to rescue Spain from the Moors. In fear and trembling, they called him "al Seid" (the Lord...
...zenana (the harem), and the support of the two American wives whom he divorced in Reno, but sponsored enough trail-blazing social measures, such as public education and the abolition of child marriage, to justify in the eyes of his people the import of his title: "His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, One Quarter Better Than Anyone Else...