Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II produced a new kind of traitor-men who openly broadcast for the enemy, tried to undermine U.S. morale. Three were brought to trial. Expatriot Poet Ezra Pound was arrested in Italy, escaped conviction when he was pronounced insane. Chicago-born Douglas Chandler, the "American Lord Haw-Haw," was sentenced to life imprisonment. Last week, in Boston's Federal District Court, Robert H. Best, 52, was also sentenced to life and fined...
...this he ignored. In his right hand, outthrust before him, were three eggs, the offering he was bringing to the Virgin of Guadelupe at her shrine in Mexico City's suburb of Tepeyac. "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus," he chanted as he walked with eyes half-closed. And behind him a chorus, 7,000 voices strong, took up the chant of the rosary: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners...
...chilly air. On either side of the choir stood 314 bishops, in full Episcopal regalia. Down the center aisle came a solemn single file: a black-robed verger, a crucifer, church dignitaries in black and scarlet, the tanned, white-topped "Red Dean" of Canterbury, 14 archbishops and finally the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury himself. The choir, in soaring descant, sang the words of Psalm 122-"I was glad when they said unto me: let us go into the house of the Lord...
Lazy Tories. The best part of Triumph of Freedom is its picture of the Tory ministry of Lord North that lost Britain a third of her empire. His was a government of gamblers and profiteers. North was lazy and self-indulgent, good-natured, not deeply moved by the revolt of the American colonies (or by anything else), queerly responsible and honest despite his squanderings...
...Lord George Germain. Disgraced as a British soldier for refusing to lead his forces into action against the French, he was court-martialed, branded as a coward, cut in society, but rose to colonial secretary as "the most implacable enemy of the American colonists," demanded unconditional surrender, and excelled at jeering at the cowardice of Americans...