Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coretta King, dressed in black in memory of her slain husband, sang Come by Here, My Lord, then launched into a 25-minute speech dwelling at length on the war in Viet Nam-"the most cruel and evil war in the history of mankind." The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who has bumbled in his efforts to lead the campaign begun by Mrs. King's husband, talked for 65 minutes. He did not much care, he cried, whether the Government renewed its permit for Resurrection City, the poor people's waterlogged campsite by the Lincoln Memorial. "I received my permit...
Hardly any other institution in the world has been denounced, ridiculed and threatened with reform so often and so roundly as Britain's House of Lords. Harold Macmillan called it "a mausoleum." Winston Churchill went him several better, denouncing the Lords as "one-sided, hereditary, unpurged, unrepresentative, irresponsible, absentee." Plans to emasculate the upper house are just as common today as they were in Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe, in which the Lord Chancellor complained: "Ah, my lords, it is indeed painful to have to sit upon a woolsack which is stuffed with such thorns as these." Anachronistic...
...just for the young and the dispossessed, but for countless people who watched and waited from a distance and scores of tough-minded men whose lives had become intertwined with his. Richard Cardinal Cushing, witness and minister to so much Kennedy sorrow, concluded: "All I can say is, good Lord, what is this all about? We could continue our prayers that it would never happen again, but we did that before...
LAND OF THE GUN, headlined a London Sun editorial. "Violence has become the brutal hallmark of the most prosperous and most powerful nation on earth." Added Britain's Lord Harlech, a longtime friend of Kennedy: "Violence in the U.S. has become a world scandal." France, which came within an inch of violent collapse last month, found time in its recovery to fret over U.S. government: "America dreamed of a government of judges," said Paris' Le Monde, "but it suffers the law of violent people." Said Combat of Paris: "America is mad." The Times of India, where politically inspired...
...difficult to be the son of an outstanding father, Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill had one of the most difficult roles in history. Born in 1911 in the year his father, Winston Churchill, became First Lord of the Admiralty, Randolph keenly felt the overpowering effects of his father's greatness. "When you are living under the shadow of a great oak tree," he once reflected, "the small sapling does not perhaps receive enough sunshine." Last week, at 57 still in the shadow, Randolph Churchill died...