Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Byrnes thus cleared the air for conversations in Washington this week with British envoys (Ambassador Halifax and Lord Keynes) seeking credits or other means to take up where Lend-Lease left...
Around the 110-year-old Presbyterian church, Bobby's 60-year-old father, Lance, tended the town's graveyard. Now & then he paused to look at a sign which read: Commit thy way unto the Lord. To friends he said: "If he did it, he was drove...
Unshaken by his first failure to break the Indian deadlock (TIME, July 16), Viceroy Lord Wavell would try again. Last week, he emplaned for London to try to figure out with the Labor Government a new way to crack the old problem...
Pompous Labor Lord Strabolgi (the tenth of his line) backslapped portly Labor Lord Quibell (first of his line), an ex-Midlands bricklayer. Lord and Lady Woolton (he top-hatted, she bejeweled) nodded to Sir John and Lady Anderson (he in formal cutaway, she in wedge sandals). Opposition Leader Winston Churchill, in striped pants and spotted bow tie, came with Anthony Eden, magnificent in formal clothes and studied carelessness...
Bernard Baruch, economic adviser to Presidents in two wars, faced peace again in an optimistic mood, declared: "We can have a prosperity that will startle the world if we use half the brains and brawn the good Lord gave us; even 47½% will make for peace and high living standards...