Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Such light," Laborite Lord Pakenham† told Britain's House of Lords last month during a debate on atomic energy, "as has been thrown on dark places has shown them to be even darker than was supposed." The benighted areas referred to were the minds of Russians...
...army were reported to be neglecting their Marx and Lenin, and the official army paper Red Star felt obliged to issue a warning. "Soviet generals," it announced, "who fail to pursue such studies will lose out in assignments to responsible military posts." In Britain, where the Lords this time were debating Communist aggression in Western Europe, Lord Pakenham had a word of enlightenment about that as well...
Bernard Shaw on schoolkids' homework: "If they required such overtime, day in and day out all the year round, from the Prime Minister, the Lord Chief Justice or the Astronomer Royal, they would be certified for a mental hospital. It would kill me in a week...
Both "Gross" and "Lord" concentrated their buying in the field of Applied Science, with a few books in Engineering, Mathematics, and romance languages. In the fall term, "Lord" acquired two slide rules, one of them an expensive circular model, with the forged orders...
...battering Rodgers took a close decision from Skip Lord. Lord was able only partially to tie up Tommy's sledge hammer right but towards the end was landing his own right fairly frequently. Rodgers, who fought in semi-finals earlier in the evening, exhibited the same slashing books that won him the 1947 crown...