Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo suburb of Tamagawa, the afternoon of Sept.11, 1945 was sultry. A sweating pack of Allied war correspondents waited restlessly outside the neat little house of General Hideki ("The Razor") Tojo, wartime premier of Japan. Tipped off that General MacArthur had ordered the hard-bitten little war lord's arrest, the newsmen had scrambled out ahead of the Army detail that would take him in. They grew impatient, sent a Japanese in to offer him a lift into town if he'd surrender to them instead. He refused to emerge from his study...
Production Line. The championship game last week was an all-Baltimore affair between Johns Hopkins University, longtime lord of the game, and the nearby Mount Washington Club, built around past Hopkins stars. Nobody was surprised at Baltimore's monopoly of the finals: though lacrosse is Canada's official national game, Baltimore is now the game's capital. When American kids everywhere else are reaching for baseball bats each spring, Baltimore's small fry fondle lacrosse sticks. (Baltimore is the largest Eastern city without a major-league baseball team.) Over a dozen Baltimore prep-school lacrosse teams...
...Wand, Lord Bishop of London, peered about him, reported with some perception: "One thing about which the world is uncertain today is whether life has any meaning...
...give up teaching for the world. Says she: "There is no more exalting profession in the world, except that followed by those who preach the word of Jesus. I quake in my boots when I think of my responsibilities. I feel I am rendering a service to humanity-and Lord knows, they need...
...Hearst, the Tribune's Robert Rutherford McCormick is more easily caricatured than portrayed. The sharpest shaft ever aimed at him-that he possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...