Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VERY REV.) JOHN WESLEY LORD...
...largely motivated by three basic desires-food, love and money-and of these, the least understood is money. Even Lord Keynes said that the agreement for the world's "gold-exchange" monetary system, framed 24 years ago at Bretton Woods, N.H., sounded as if it had been written in Cherokee. But beneath the current confusion of talk about payments balances and gold flows, just about everybody realizes that something is wrong with the international system of money and gold. The time has come, if not for sweeping reform, at least for searching reappraisal of the apparatus through which major...
Lost Teeth. Macmillan draws on his diaries and seldom has to correct by hindsight his first impressions. They are not without humor, as in the episode involving Lord Davies, a Welsh magnate who was Macmillan's companion on a mission to Finland. Macmillan's diary records the event thus: "Lord Davies has left his teeth in the train. "Lord Davies has lost his passport...
...Later, Lord Davies' passport has turned up, but not his teeth. A search of an intense kind has been made. As the Malmö train connects with the Berlin train, it is thought that the teeth have been stolen by a Gestapo agent. Later still. Lord Davies' teeth have been found." All, however, was not low jinks in high diplomacy. Churchill drew Macmillan closer to him, and the fact that both men had American mothers made it seem right that Macmillan would work better than most others in the vital area of Anglo-American cooperation. In this field...
...paper never talked about itself and did not even give its correspondents bylines. Last week the new Times showed once again how much it has changed by running a four-page spread in the Sunday Times magazine boasting of its achievements in the year since it was bought by Lord Thomson of Fleet. Complete with drawings of Thomson, his editor and the paper's heroes, the article told how the "most dignified newspaper in the world hustled its way to being the most talked about sheet on the street in twelve constructive and destructive months...