Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorce has long been quite acceptable in Britain, but today there is less effort to conceal its causes. Lord Harewood, the 18th in line of succession to the throne, frequently appeared in public with a divorcee who bore him a son while he was still wed to his first wife. Queen Elizabeth, the temporal head of the Church of England, made a concession to the more relaxed morality by deciding to give him royal permission to marry the woman. Even Parliament now eagerly delves into areas that were formerly taboo. Three weeks ago, Commons passed a bill legalizing homosexual acts...
...second American woman--to write a book, and her poetry achieved international renown. She was also the first person to apply the phrase "First in Peace" to George Washington, who wrote to her and praised her literary gifts highly. On a visit to London, she was presented by the Lord Mayor with a fine folio edition of Milton's Paradise Lost, which is now owned by Harvard's Houghton Library...
...formally knighted by Queen Elizabeth with Sir Francis Drake's sword. Later, the solo circumnavigator rode a white Rolls-Royce convertible through London's financial district to the cheers of 250,000 fellow Britons. "You personify the spirit of initiative, adventure and determination," London's Lord Mayor told Chichester at the official city reception, and he might have included Sir Francis' wife in that as well. Unmoved by the fact that the reception was scheduled for the Guildhall, where formal dress is required, Lady Chichester, 65, insisted on wearing her favorite cherry-red trouser suit, forced...
...People's attorney replied, "here is a man who has been at pains to destroy his reputation throughout his adult life, claiming damages for injury to his reputation." As evidence of that, the defense sought to introduce the fact of his conviction. On a preliminary appeal, Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls, ruled that the jury could consider the conviction; he added that he had always been irked anyway by "the strange rule of law which says that a conviction is not evidence of guilt." Thus simultaneously bound and freed by the law, the jury found that Goody...
Every Christian is expected to gather with others "...to praise God, to hear his Word for mankind, to baptize and to join in the Lord's Supper, to pray for and present the world to him in worship, to enjoy fellowship, to receive instruction, strength, and comfort, to order and organize (the church's) corporate life, to be tested, renewed, and reformed, and to speak and act in the world's affairs as may be appropriate to the needs of the time...