Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joined the Army at 18, Adams, after his defection, went to People's University in Peking for two years and Wuhan University for five, learning Mandarin and other Chinese languages. He met and married Liu Lin-feng, a teacher of Russian and the daughter of a deceased war lord, was given a job as a translator for the Foreign Languages Press at about $85 a month. He lived well by Chinese standards in a three-room apartment, had access to Western publications (including TIME) because of his work. Despite constant indoctrination at every stage of his life in China...
...Western world, which either does not appreciate it or cannot afford it). One Greek word for a private person was "idiot," which, then as now, carried implications of ignorance -or at least a large indifference to civic concern. The tribe knew no privacy, and even the lord of the feudal manor lived in a swarm of servants, children and relatives, often all of them sleeping around the edges of the big hall where the fireplace was. Until the start of the 18th century, rooms in even the grandest houses led into each other. In those days, as Lewis Mumford...
...page of Pascagoula news around the Mobile papers and started selling them in Pascagoula. The new edition, called the Mississippi Press Register, lost nearly $750,000, but the Chronicle lost heavily too. Chronicle President Ralph Nicholson decided to sell out-but not to the immediate competition. Canadian-born Publisher Lord Thomson bought the paper, then turned around and sold it to the Mobile papers for a hefty...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A murder trial becomes a way to gain revenge against a prominent family. Starring Pat O'Brien, Jack Lord, Sheree North and Dana Wynter. Repeat...
...scene is first class: Don Quixote de Gaulle, encountering the Kremlin's "Bed and Breakfast plus Extras" sign, surely exclaims to his faithful servant, Sancho Couve de Murville, over the wondrous castle before them, and says that surely De Gaulle must receive tributes from the lord of the castle, and in turn pay homage to the beautiful lady therein...