Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rocky's strategy 100% altruism? Probably closer to 99%. If, despite all his efforts, the Romney campaign for the nomination were to be clearly failing a year from now, Lord Nelson might then with good grace allow himself to be towed forcibly into the convention under his own flag...
...classmates have been having their own kind of sport with it. They send the signature home as a souvenir, and in a matchmaking spirit have even mailed a couple of mint specimens to Smith College Freshman Julie Nixon, 17. Except for the holograph hounds, though, the little Lord Jeffreys make no fuss over David. "We have a Cabot at Amherst," explains an insouciant classmate, "and that's as high...
...verdicts should require only a 10-to-2 majority. The proposition was surprising in almost every way, not least of all because it provoked practically no reaction from either the public or the press. It was supported by some of the highest ranking jurists in the land, notably the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker of Waddington, who argued that under the present jury setup "many, many guilty persons are acquitted...
...Japanese daimyo, or feudal lord, named Yorishige Matsudaira rode 350 miles southwest from Tokyo (then Edo) to take over the provincial capital city of Takamatsu on the sunny island of Shikoku. To commemorate his arrival, he called in the finest landscape architects in the land and had them build a magnificent garden, known as Ritsurin Koen, or Forest of Chestnut Trees, that even today draws visitors from all over Japan. When they come, they see in flourishing Takamatsu, now a city of 240,000, many another sight to please the eye. For Masanori Kaneko, 60, the local governor, has taken...
Bill Cobb, Joe O'Donnell, Jeff Hall, and Lincoln had three hits apiece and Carter Lord, Dan Hootstein, and Pete Karegeannes each tagged two. Looking like a lumberjack at work. Lord clobbered the longest ball of the spring -- a 400-foot home run to left...