Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historic seafarers-and unabashed supporters of the Israelis-the British were most impatient to put the plan into operation, even without multilateral backing. One high official, resorting to undiplomatic language, urged "ramming a ship up Nasser's channel." In the upper house of Parliament, Lord Avon-the former Anthony Eden, who resigned as Britain's Foreign Minister in protest against Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement and in 1956 joined France and Israel in the Suez invasion-even raised the specter of Munich. "I do not feel myself back ten years ago-I feel myself very much...
Died. Lady Harlech, 45, wife of Lord Harlech, who as Sir David Ormsby Gore was British Ambassador to Washington (1961-65) and presently is deputy Conservative leader in the House of Lords; a tall, handsome woman whose poise and intimate friendship with the Kennedys made her one of Washington's top diplomatic hostesses; of injuries suffered when her car collided with a bus; near Harlech, Wales...
Died. Air Marshal Lord Tedder, 76, Eisenhower's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander from 1943 to 1945, a brilliant R.A.F. tactician who as Middle East air commander in 1941 devised the concept of "carpet bombing," using hundreds of planes literally to blow a path for ground troops through Nazi minefields and fortifications, later played a major role in planning and carrying out the immensely complex invasion of Europe, with primary responsibility for making certain that land and sea forces had the fullest possible air cover; of Parkinson's disease; in Banstead, England...
...latest book of verse, Near the Ocean, published this year, seals a productive decade that brings his output to 130 poems and 69 "imitations" from the classics collected in Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs and Land of Unlikeness. He has also written three short plays collectively titled The Old Glory, and a translation of Racine's Phaedra (recently staged in Philadelphia). His new prose play Prometheus Bound, produced this month at the Yale School of Drama, is not so much drama as an oratorio streaked with images...
...Mother, we fell down Here hugger mugger in the jellied fire: Our sacred earth in our day was a curse. Many of his antiwar poems were written at Damariscotta Mills, Me., where he and his wife had gone as soon as he was released from jail. Collected in Lord Weary's Castle, his second volume, they won him, at 29, the Pulitzer Prize...