Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What about Britain? Stumpy Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, hurried to Washington to explain that his people had already cut the size of their bread loaf, might be forced to ration bread. Before departing, he agreed to a second 200,000-ton cut in the allocation of North American grain to Britain...
...Britons whose statesmanship had produced the plan for India-Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps, A. V. Alexander, Lord Wavell-were determined to push through a solution. Their able spokesman, aging Pethick-Lawrence (74), told correspondents: "What will happen if one person ... or groups of people in some way tried to put spanners [monkey wrenches] in the wheels, I am not prepared at this stage precisely to say; but the intention is to get on with...
...watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
Labor had sometimes suspected that one of these days Britain's peers might again itch to extend their legislative hand and block Laborite bills passed by the House of Commons. Last week it almost happened. The Lords were considering the repeal of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act when Lord Merthyr, a former artillery major, boldly suggested an amendment that would substantially change the bill. Said he: "I submit that the functions of your lordships' House should be allowed to continue as they were intended to continue ... [or] is this House really merely an assembly for dotting...
Visions of rebellion may have flashed temptingly through their lordships' minds. But too well they knew the retribution in store for them if they misbehaved; some particularly brash commoners had even murmured darkly of dissolving the upper chamber entirely. Declared Lord Swinton: "Lord Merthyr's is not a wise view to express in this century." He concluded by sternly advising Lord Merthyr to "revise his estimate of the comparative value of valor and discretion...