Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Macmillan, pale but still game, stopped back in London from his visit to Bonn, some of his more enthusiastic admirers were hailing his journeys as the diplomatic triumph of the age. SUPERMAC! HE DOES IT AGAIN ! headlined London's Daily Sketch. Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail-which, like most British papers, finds the West Germans too unbending toward Russia-had wondrous news to impart. In Bonn, confided the Daily Mail, Macmillan "completely won over Dr. Adenauer, to a system of step-by-step disarmament in Central Europe...
...long reign. "Well, here I am-at the end of the road and the top of the heap," he told visiting Canadian Premier John Diefenbaker. At another audience he said: "I who have come to the pontificate at such an advanced age do not despair of receiving from the Lord at least the time conceded to St. Agatho [Pope from 678 to 681]. There are so many things...
...Christians should shudder," stormed Pastor Duncan, "at the idea that the agony in the garden of our blessed Lord, one of the most awful events in his Passion, should be thus exploited . . . Where are we going to stop? Next thing will be our Lord on the cross with his last words in stereophonic sound. I have no objection to religious art, but when you begin having dolls . . . good...
...agelong struggle against the sea there has been more than one death-filled night to remember, and Walter Lord's bestselling Titanic saga (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956) was bound to become the leader of a literary ghost-ship column. Authors Caulfield and Moscow are newsmen, and neither is as slick a writer as former Adman Lord. But they have raised their ships from the depths of forgetfulness and cast light into dark spaces...
...with nine successive Popes were stormy, but she showed some signs of restraint. In the Prayer Book, designed for worship in the church of which she was the head, Protestant Elizabeth with her own hand struck out the words:"From the Bishop of Rome and his detestable enormities. Good Lord, deliver...