Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tories had behaved much like the U.S. Republicans of 1948, campaigning decorously on the confident assumption that all they needed to do was to avoid rocking the boat. But unlike Tom Dewey's cohorts, the Tories awoke in time to change their campaign style. "Attack," ordered Tory Chairman Lord Hailsham last week. "Expose the grisly Socialist record. Ridicule their crude pretensions...
...forbidden to write on patients' charts on the Sabbath. The sheet-draped patient: Abram Setsuzau Kotsuji, 60, a descendant of Shinto priests. The surgery: circumcision, as part of his conversion to Judaism. As the mohel (circumciser) lifted the knife, he repeated the ancient formula: "Blessed be the Lord our God who has sanctified us and commanded us to circumcise the convert...
Wonder why they electrocute a man, baby, Lord, at the one o'clock hour at night, The current much stronger; people turn out all the light...
...chestful of decorations in half a century of fighting far and wide for the Empire, commanded a daring but futile expedition (1918-19) against the Bolsheviks at Archangel, served briefly (1939-40) as Chief of the British Imperial General Staff; of a heart attack; in London. Lord Ironside could speak 16 languages, once posed for two years (1900-02) as a Boer in the German army in Southeast Africa, so impressed his Prussian superiors that the young spy was awarded the German Military Service Medal...
...Welcome Back." What will the new compacts do to those gnatty foreign bugs, which started the rush to smallness? "We never worry about competition," says Britain's Lord Rootes, whose Rootes Motors Ltd. makes Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam. "We welcome our American competitors back after the years in which they designed themselves out of the market...