Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs," warned Lord Rosebery in 1900. Even today, British managers are all too often Old Boys, who transfer the notion of the gentleman scholar to their roles as gentlemen businessmen, and work just hard enough to get by. There are perhaps half a million managers in British industry. Few have had any specialized training in management skills-and they are usually proud of it. Business, after all, is not a status occupation in Britain...
...Lord, I can't stand to see my baby...
...their neighbors, it was usually when they rode to worship at the nearest church, often a two-day journey from their farm. There was no shortage of labor, however. Hottentots and imported East Indian slaves were easy to come by and inexpensive to maintain. Gradually, the Boer farmer became lord of his whole horizon and far beyond...
...drain, set up the U.S. Travel Service as the nation's first official tourist bureau, the number of foreign visitors to America has more than doubled. This year 1,200,000 of them (excluding border crossers from Canada and Mexico) are busily proving for themselves the truth of Lord Bryce's 19th century axiom: "America excites an admiration which must be felt upon the spot to be understood...
...house of Samuel traced its wealth and station back to Viscount Bearsted's grandfather, the first Lord Bearsted, who founded the British half of Royal Dutch Shell. A conservative partnership, Samuel relied heavily on its money to make money, stuck to gilt-edged investments. Philip Hill, whose directors held their salaried jobs by right of talent alone, was brash, inventive and daring. With Philip Hill's top man, a rugged ex-lieutenant colonel of the Welsh Guards named Kenneth Alexander Keith, 49, as deputy chairman and chief executive of the com bine, the Hill team pushed ahead with...