Word: overlording
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...balding, hunched-over man in the witness chair was Santo Trafficante, 63, the reputed Mafia boss in the Tampa area and former overlord of mob-owned gambling casinos in Havana...
...those creatures out there in the jungle in The Island of Dr. Moreau. To Braddock (Michael York), a shipwrecked sailor, they are at first shadowy, ominous presences, cracking twigs underfoot and growling in the gloom. What could they be? What, for that matter, are the mysterious experiments that the overlord of the island, Dr. Moreau (Burt Lancaster), is conducting in his compound? And why do all of Moreau's servants seem-well, barely human...
...steepest falls from power in congressional history. Mills, the overlord of federal revenue legislation, whose Ways and Means Committee has responsibility for drafting major tax, trade and Social Security bills, has long savored his reputation as the most powerful man in Congress. The spectacle of one of the House's most revered elder statesmen cavorting onstage with a stripper sent shock waves through Congress, most especially members of Mills' own party. In sorrow, House Speaker Carl Albert announced that Mills would not be Ways and Means chairman when the 94th Congress convened in January. A confused and ailing...
...Montgomery's much celebrated "intuition" that told when Rommel would strike at El Alamein, the turning point for the British in the North African desert war. As the D-day landings approached in Normandy, Ultra was scrutinized for signs of a Nazi alert; there were none, and Operation Overlord's surprise was complete...
...Irish Academy of Music before becoming a war correspondent in 1941. He covered the D-day invasion for the London Daily Telegraph; he reported postwar atomic tests in the Pacific and the Israeli 1948 war for TIME. A return to Normandy in 1949 rekindled his fascination with Operation Overlord. Ryan did ten years of painstaking research and conducted more than 1,000 interviews before finishing The Longest...