Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LORD, I WISH I WAS A BUZZARD, by Polly Greenberg (Macmillan; $4.50). This matter-of-fact rendering of a day in the cotton fields is somewhat removed from the modern child's experiences. The illustrations in brown and orange by Aliki catch the polka-dot bleakness of the Southern landscape at cotton-picking time...
...CHARLES BABBAGE (In a letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Mathematician Babbage took issue with Tennyson's lines, "Every minute dies a man,/Every minute one is born." In so doing, this eminent specialist proved his case, but magnificently missed the point): I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas the total is constantly on the increase. In the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every...
Have Another. That sort of strategy would have appealed to the company's early champion, Winston Churchill. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914, Churchill got the government to bankroll B.P.'s tottering predecessor, the pioneering Anglo-Persian Oil Co., thus ensuring fuel for the Royal Navy through two world wars. An equally happy mix of politics and oil has been overdue for Drake, who will formally take over from ailing Chairman Sir Maurice Bridgeman in January. Last year's closing of the Suez Canal forced shipping costs up; then came the Biafran civil war, which...
...prospect of man's inability to feed an unchecked population. The latest authority to update the Malthusian theory is British Novelist C. P. Snow (The Corridors of Power, The Two Cultures), who is celebrated for his observations on the disparity between the worlds of science and the humanities. Lord Snow issued his warning last week as he delivered the John Findlay Green lecture at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. (where Winston Churchill made his classic "iron curtain" speech in 1946). In effect, Snow said that Malthus' gloomy prognostication might be borne out within a generation...
...took over in April 1967, Papandreou was put under house arrest. His son Andreas, an even more active leftist, was thrown in jail and later exiled. Last Easter, when the house arrest was lifted, the old warrior responded with a typically unrepentant statement: "This year, the day of our Lord's resurrection, coincides with the anniversary of our people's crucifixion...