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Word: lording (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spurned by their neighbors because their subcaste was regarded as backward and ignorant, the Baghbhans of Mokhimpur had little to sustain them but their faith in the Hindus' God of Preservation, Vishnu. Some day-the Baghbhans have told each other for generations-Vishnu himself, in his reincarnation as Lord Ramachandra. would turn up in their village in the guise of a sadhu, or holy man, and from then on. all would be well. This faith has long made their village a favorite target for the hordes of self-appointed holy men (estimated total: 8,000,000) who roam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A God for Mokhimpur | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

That night, in jail in Moradabad. the wounded sadhu announced that he would soon go into another trance. "The police were wrong in disturbing the peace," he said. "I am the reincarnation of the Lord Ramachandra, and I am here to create a new way of life." Police records bore no evidence of this one way or another, but they did show that up to three years ago, the self-appointed god of Mokhimpur had been a messenger boy in the Uttar Pradesh Department of Public Works who had been fired for misbehavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A God for Mokhimpur | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Second Inaugural | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...they're going to bury him head down, and when that trumpet sounds, he's going to find himself going further the wrong way. I want every person who prays to call Marvin Griffin's name to God, and I want you to say, 'Lord, I'm talking about the Marvin Griffin who is governor of Georgia,' so there won't be any mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Blowing the Horn | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...home." To offset the retention of Selwyn Lloyd as Foreign Minister-"Mr. Lloyd returns to the Foreign Office down a long, cold arch of raised eyebrows," observed The Economist-Macmillan had solace for Suez critics. Rab Butler, who lost out to Macmillan as Prime Minister but stayed on as Lord Privy Seal, he identified as "my chief partner in this new enterprise." Two other appointments got widespread attention. One was Macmillan's reaching outside Parliament to make harddriving, self-made Birmingham Industrialist Sir Percy Mills, 67, Minister of Power (Mills was simultaneously made a baron to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Push Ahead | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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