Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term British Commonwealth* had been loosely in use for decades, and Britain's Arthur James Balfour, World War I Foreign Secretary, undertook to define it-with help from Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King (William Lyon Mackenzie's grandson). Lord Balfour's report called the Commonwealth "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another," and united "by a common allegiance to the Crown," as head of the Commonwealth. The 1931 Statute of Westminster removed from Britain the right to withhold consent to laws passed by Dominion Parliaments...
Feeling its widening independence, Canada asked the King to stop conferring hereditary titles on its citizens, because "it seemed alien to the life of Canada."† Today, a Canadian who hopes to be ennobled must live in Britain, as does Ontario-born Lord Beaverbrook. Canada began to issue passports, changed "subjects" to "citizens," stopped sending appeals from its Supreme Court to Britain's Privy Council...
Since 1956, he said, more than 65,000 of his people had died fighting the Chinese. The Reds were not only trying to settle 5,000,000 Chinese in Tibet, nearly double the native population; they were even trying to declare "the Lord Buddha a reactionary element." Today, said the Dalai Lama, there are only three classes of Tibetans: those deported, those in prison, and those doing forced labor...
...difficult to do, but the necessity for it is perfectly understandable. Think of Cardinal Newman's reference to the slow dance of the Mass. Read how God told the Israelites to build the tabernacle in the desert, and note the tremendous visual detail in his instructions. Our Lord's methods were perfect television, in three dimensions...
...routinely drawn old thunderer. His women, drunk or sober, are the four-martini kind-it would take that many snorts at a cocktail party to make them endurable. But for old newspaper hands who happen on the book, there is at least one reward-the characterization of a press lord so noble that he allows his own gossip columnist to malign a much-loved member of his family, because, by God, the facts are right...