Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord Jeffs, though weaker than last year, are still a team to be reckoned with. Their captain and number one singles man, Tony Richardson, who beat Larry Sears last year, is back and gave Yale's Don Dell a tough first set in Amherst's 9-0 loss to the Elis last week. Crimson captain Ned Weld, who has been playing very well at first singles, will have his hands full with Richardson...
...aroused, Adenauer became abnormally sensitive to public hostility toward Germany in Britain-a feeling first revealed by the chilly reception that British crowds gave West German President Theodore Heuss during his state visit to England (TIME, Nov. 3). Unforgivingly, the Chancellor has kept track of anti-German blasts in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express and the tasteless comments of Daily Mirror Correspondent Cassandra (William Neil Connor)-who last week compared Adenauer's attitude on Berlin negotiations to "the rigidity of Hitler at Munich...
...only by the deliberate inner search for self. Most effective is right thought and right behavior. Sin does not offend any god, but only the man who commits it. This stern doctrine proved too barren for most men. Within 200 years, Buddha was transformed by followers from Master into Lord, and surrounded by all manner of legend, demonology and ceremonial...
...other truly bright spot, also in the third act, has the graying but still frisky Lord Brockhurst (Norman Patz), in France with his wife and eager for excitement, explaining to fluffy, pixie-like Dulcie, (Sally Ryder), one of Mme. Dubonnet's unfinished creations, that It's Never Too Late to Fall in Love. Then the wife (Judith Orchoff) appears and the spell is shattered...
...Parke brought down his hammer on some of the most grandiose sales in art history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures as the manuscript of the Gettysburg Address and a lock of George Washington's hair...