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Word: lording (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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That possibility has worried Venetians, and those who love Venice, for centuries. Lord Byron foresaw a day when the city's "marble walls are level with the waters." Built on a group of mud islands and reinforced only by ancient wooden piles and wattles, Venice has always been a sinking city. In recent years, however, in addition to losing ground at an ever faster rate, it has been attacked by the pestilence of modern cities-air pollution. As a result, the city and its treasures are now in greater danger than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE SINKING JEWEL OF THE ADRIATIC | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...municipal government's fallibility: "Look at our Lord's disciples. One denied him, one doubted him, one betrayed him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: Chairman Daley's Maxims | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...ceremony was left purposely ambiguous, asking God to bestow "upon both the gifts which he has given each in our separation"-a formula that would allow conservative Anglicans to feel that the Methodists were getting Holy Orders, and Methodists to believe that they were not. But even Lord Fisher of Lambeth, the retired Archbishop of Canterbury who had proposed a formal reunion with the Methodists as far back as 1946, found the ambiguity unacceptable. The service, complained Fisher, "involves both churches in open double-dealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecumenism: Anglicans Vote No | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...sect's calculations, "God's timetable" ushered in the last days. Ever since then, Witnesses have longed for the end of "this wicked system of things" and the beginning of the millennium. According to their literal interpretation of The Bible, based on Revelation 14:1,* the Lord God will then pick 144,000 Witnesses to reign with Christ in heaven. The rest will remain on earth to convert unbelievers; at the end of 1,000 years, the wicked will be annihilated, while the saved will continue to enjoy a worldly Paradise. In his address on closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: Witnessing the End | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...government took over steel in 1967, officials proclaimed efficiency to be their primary objective. They argued that the fragmented private industry, which earned 1.9% on investment in 1966, could not acquire the capital to build the modern mills needed to compete with Japan and the U.S. The Laborites induced Lord Melchett, a Tory banker and philosophical opponent of nationalization, to accept the chairmanship of BSC on the promise that he would be allowed to run it in a strictly businesslike fashion. He quickly ran into political roadblocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Nationalization Mess | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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