Word: overlordship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the strings attached, Emir Abdullah might feel that a lifetime of loyalty to Britain had at last been rewarded. As a young delegate to the Ottoman Parliament, he had urged his father Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, to team with the British in an Arab revolt against Ottoman overlordship. In World War I (in return for a promise of Arab independence) Abdullah fought against the Turks, side by side with Colonel Lawrence...
...whole thing. Last week, having maneuvered Senator Nye into a three-cornered primary fight, Slippery Bill stumped the state with his own hand-picked candidate. He hoped to inherit: 1) control of two seats in the U.S. Senate; 2) all of North Dakota's Federal patronage; 3) overlordship of Bismarck's 19-story State Capitol...
...murder. Accompanying stories hinted at the rise of a new gangland mob: the "wise boys" said that the "Syndicate," or the "Outfit"-presumably the remnants of the old Capone gang-was being muscled out. Black-market traffic in liquor* and even in cheese was involved; so was the overlordship of gambling, bawdyhouses and numerous other rackets. Then, to top it off, to give the stories the real burnt-powder smell of the turbulent '20s, the name of another Capone flashed into the news. He was Al's younger brother Matt, the pampered one of the family...
...Republican party has come a long way from the stinging defeats of 1932 and '36, but still finds its path endangered by the hazards of disunity and internal bickering. Back in the pre-depression days of conservative overlordship, the G.O.P. bigwigs could generally convene annually for their state-of-the-party log-roll, point with pride at the balance of the budget, view with alarm the radical tendencies of the radicals in Congress, orate at length, and hibernate for another year...
Britons have also been anxious to get rid of prying Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper, and his house-to-house canvassers of public opinion, contemptuously nicknamed "Cooper's Snoopers." In that case Lord Beaverbrook was expected to assume the overlordship of the Ministry of Information...