Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle told Kennedy flatly that he would not under any circumstances approve of any SEATO intervention involving the use of troops), it was prepared to keep on sitting at Geneva in the hope that something would turn up. At week's end, Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Home launched yet another compromise plan, under which the U.S. would stop its airdrops of arms to pockets of troops stranded behind enemy lines, and the Communists would stop shooting. Gromyko told Harriman that this sounded fine-though there was reason, on the record, to wonder how much another Communist cease...
Better than a thousand sermons was your coverage of Blake's proposal to unite four major Protestant denominations. The average layman says: "Why not?" The clergy question: "When?" And our Blessed Lord prays, ". . . that they...
...Revolutionary times, any person who dared to: 1) do business, or 2) have fun on the Lord's Day could be fined, whipped or locked up in the stocks. Each of the original 13 Colonies had laws limiting Sunday activities in one way or another. Even today, every state except Alaska has its "blue laws"-so called because New England Puritans, who started it all, adopted the color blue in opposition to the red emblem of British royalty...
...return, his wife and children were held hostage by the Nazis. Brand's mission ended abruptly when he was seized by the British on the Syrian frontier, taken to Cairo and intensively questioned. When he finished his story, a tall, slim man-identified to him later as Lord Moyne. British Resident Minister in the Middle East-exclaimed: "What should I do with 1,000,000 Jews?"* Eichmann's German attorney. Dr. Robert Servatius, was quick to ask whether the British did not seem to regard the acceptance of 1,000,000 Jews a heavy burden? "Burden...
...Court of St. James's. Son John F., then a student at Harvard, was often in residence at the embassy during vacations, and naturally enough, fell in with the Rt. Hon. David Ormsby-Gore. Young Ormsby-Gore was not only heir to the title of his father. Lord Harlech, a Shropshire landowner and onetime chairman of the Mid land Bank, but also nephew of Tory Kingmaker Lord Salisbury. "We were just young people going around together." says Ormsby-Gore. Then Jack Kennedy's kid sister Kathleen ("Kick") up and married Ormsby-Gore's first cousin, the Marquess...