Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family approached two authors -Theodore H. White (The Making of a President) and Walter Lord (Day of Infamy). Both declined, mostly because the Kennedys were asking for final-review rights of the book. Someone recalled that Jack Kennedy had spoken favorably of Manchester, whose 1962 Portrait of a President was a glowing-one reviewer called it "adoring"-tribute to J.F.K. Manchester, 44, an exMarine, agreed to the conditions laid down by the Kennedys...
...Blake sawed his way out of Wormwood Scrubbs in London, the issue of prison security welled up into a national scandal that acutely embarrassed the Labor government. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins reacted by naming the eminent Earl Mountbatten to head a committee of inquiry. In turn, the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty pledged his word that "We will be out working all the time, not sitting on our backsides...
...scholar, he ranked with Pico and Erasmus. As an author (Utopia), he became the first great social philosopher of the modern era. As a jurist, he was the brightest legal light of the realm. As a politician, he rose to the highest office in the King's gift: Lord Chancellor. As a Christian, he stood fast to his principles in the greatest scandal of the century, choosing to save his soul though he lost his head, and for his martyrdom he is recorded in the calendar of saints...
...eloquence of the play, but the plot has been smoothed and straightened in its passage through the projector. What comes out is a swift and vivid story. Henry VIII (Robert Shaw), having decided to put away a Queen "as barren as a brick," names Sir Thomas (Paul Scofield) as Lord...
...first nine minutes of the game, a combination of Crimson mistakes and the phenomenal driving ability of the Lord Jeffs' smooth sophomore forward Wally Bazenas kept the score respectable...