Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teatime Touch. With the benign air of the family's favorite aunt, florid, white-haired Party Chairman Lord Woolton rose on the flower-lined platform to announce good news. Conservative membership had risen from 1,200,000 to 2,250,000 from December 1947 to June 1948. Recent public opinion polls had shown that the Tories were ahead. But the delegates realized that they were still far from home. Said one: "The tide is turning. We must harness it to our projects." Said another: "But what are our projects...
...entire hotel was bent on pleasing Winston Churchill. Tall, white-haired Lord Hacking, former chairman of the Conservative Party, no common man himself, found that out when he rang for the elevator. An immaculate figure in his perfectly cut dinner jacket, he stood by the elevator gate and watched the car go up eight times, carrying only a waitress with heavy trays. Finally, the elevator boy shouted through the gate: "Sorry, sir, but it's Mr. Churchill's dinner...
...Lord Hacking walked upstairs...
...Dave Gregory, Clark Coggeshall, Tom McGrath, Dave Scudder, Peter Lord, Allan Master, and Joe Heaney, top performers in the opening meet, are among the 29 runners Coach Mikkola will send out to the Franklin starting line...
...parties must be great at Amherst this fall for the Varsity soccer team had no trouble yesterday afternoon subduing the Lord Jeff booters, who ran out of gas after about ten minutes of play at the Business School Field and played the whole last period at about half speed. The score was 3 to 0 thus giving the Varsity a record of one win, one tie, and one less for the season...