Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard to deny Dr. Banda a fine sense of timing, for just as Britain's Lord Perth was about to negotiate increased constitutional rights for the Africans and independence for the Federation--a victory for the moderates of both races--civil disturbances broke out and the talks were interrupted. Throughout the territory there were scattered instances of intimidation, property destruction, and the interruption of communications...
...lecture (subject: "The Future of Europe") duly applauded, Laborite Peer Lord Attlee settled down for tea at Indiana's Valparaiso University. Cream or lemon?asked the hostess.Answered Attlee, with just the flicker of a smirk: "Ever since the Boston Tea Party, you Americans have been trying to dredge up our bloomin' tea and give it back to us. No, thanks-I'll have coffee...
...published in the U.S. was The Game and The Ground-TIME, May 6, 1957). Orders of Chivalry is witty, satirical, and one of the toughest, most trenchant novels to come out of Britain in recent years. Author Vansittart (38-year-old distant cousin of Britain's late Diplomat Lord Robert Vansittart) shows a boldly romantic streak in admiration for such old-fashioned virtues as duty, discipline, honor and obedience...
...centered upon London, a city struggling to forget the Pusan road, "the Commonwealth youngsters skewered on the Dieppe beaches," and Kenya's savage snipers. As the story unfolds-it is seen through the plain, distressed eyes of Captain Alan Curtis, veteran of Korea, Kenya, Cyprus-TV Tycoon Lord Arthur Illius announces plans for a Festival of London. A prize, gravely named the Grail, is offered to the citizen who contributes the best ideas to the festival, so all Britain is abuzz with ludicrous suggestions: "Demands to restore the pillory; to rebuild horse-troughs; proposals that women should wear wimples...
...lord peered down at the stubby Behrman and replied, "I don't believe...