Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organizer for the benefit observed philosophically: "The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away." On the debit side were Lynda Bird Johnson and Actor George Hamilton, who couldn't make it to Manhattan for the U.S. premiere of the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton version of The Taming of the Shrew. Among the credits were Bobby Kennedy and his sister Pat Lawford, joining a glittering list of 500 who paid $100 each to help the Society for the Rehabilitation of the Facially Disfigured. But it was the Duke and Duchess of Windsor who drew shrieks from the people watchers outside...
...diminutive Munch made his best showing on Monday night, when he defeated football end Carter Lord in the foil competition. He then scored three points for a fourth in Tuesday's sabre event and closed with four points for his third place finish in last night's epee...
...CRIMSON's story on the restoration of Harvard Hall, reference is made to one of Winthrop's physics students as Benjamin Thompson, "the future Lord Rutherford...
...Lord Rutherford was the famous physicist who headed the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, where many of the leading physicists of the 20th Century did their work...
Benjamin Thompson, on the other hand, became Lord Rumford (the name was derived from Rumford, N.H., which later became the city of Concord) who did significant work in the field of heat and the caloric theory. This derived from his experiences in the armory of Bavaria where he noted that the boring of cannons in water raised the temperature of the water...