Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who think that it is Christian philosophy to give up one's own space in the fallout shelter for a neighbor should read the story of Noah in the Bible. The Lord told Noah to warn the people of the coming flood and they laughed at him. He also gave Noah the exact dimensions of the ark, and only the animals and Noah's family were to occupy...
Billeted in Ottawa's Lord Elgin Hotel with a fellow Soviet delegate, Klotchko waited until his roommate was asleep, collected only his razor and toothbrush, and slipped out into the deserted streets. Klotchko quickly found himself talking to the Mounties. By 8:30 in the morning, Klotchko's appeal for political asylum was on Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's desk, and by 9:30 the Cabinet met to approve...
...well before the state's 1923 banking law came into effect, the Bank of Zapata was one of a number of privately owned, unincorporated Texas banks that have no charter, are free from either state or federal audits. The Medinas, explained County Attorney Joseph Caldwell, "reported to the Lord alone." But the family reputation was impeccable; almost all the town's merchants kept their accounts in Don Manuel's bank, and public funds on deposit amounted to $250,000. Then, a month ago, a sign went up in the bank's window announcing that the place...
Near the Flash Point? For all his professed desire to parley, nothing Khrushchev said last week suggested a new basis for discussion of anything-except his own demands that East Germany be given total control over access to Berlin. Britain's slim and elegant Foreign Secretary, Lord Home, thought it necessary to caution his own people about being prematurely relieved by the prospects of talks: "It is really no good looking on the word negotiation as an incantation that can be repeated as if it might solve everything," he said. "So far, in all our contacts with the Russians...
...19th century, the exploitation of rubber in the interior introduced another wave of slaughter. To punish one miscreant slave, one plantation owner forced him to watch while plantation hands took turns raping the Indian's wife, then had the man emasculated. After a visit to Brazil in 1900, Lord Bryce, famed British Ambassador to the U.S., wrote: "The methods employed in the collection of rubber surpass in horror anything hitherto reported to the civilized world during the last century. Flogging, torturing, burning and starving to death have been constantly and ruthlessly employed." Along with the white man came...