Word: overlordship
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Rear Window. At stake was the overlordship of Melbourne's bustling, 16-acre Victoria Market, beneath whose iron-roofed sheds are crowded the stalls of 800 produce growers and 200 agents. Work in the market starts at 2 a.m. as trucks roll in with produce from Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland, and the stalls fill with a babble of Mediterranean tongues-Italian, Greek, Yugoslav-as well as Australian-twanged English. Trading is almost entirely in cash, and an estimated $45 million worth of fruits and vegetables pass through Victoria Market every year...
...that the Cold War is not their quarrel, but that they should be permitted to make it so. Gaullists therefore accept the American contention that Russia is a threat which unites Western Europe to America, but they accept it on the condition that a real difference exists between American overlordship and Russian overlordship...
...Under the British raj, London played what Lord Curzon called "the great game." Its object was to protect India's northern borders from Russia by fostering semi-independent buffer states like Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. In those palmy colonial days, Tibet was militarily insignificant, and China, which claims overlordship of Tibet, was usually too weak to exercise...
...British] suckers of blood and squeezers of nationals' lands are determined to impose their policy of overlordship on East, South and Central Africa. The British bwana wants all people who are not white to be slaves." ¶"We would be glad to hear Mr. Eisenhower suggest to the Soviet Union that it join hands with the Americans to fight imperialism. Mr. Eisenhower could not do so because America also is now a state which wishes to have colonies, to oppress and exploit...
...principal changes: 1) three new ministers (for food, education and agriculture) were promoted to Cabinet rank, including Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh, first woman ever admitted to a Conservative Cabinet; 2) the "overlordship" system-a Churchill invention under which a Cabinet officer supervises a cluster of related departments, but has no direct control over any of them-was dropped as a failure, and so were two overlords, Lord Leathers and Sir Arthur Salter; 3) a saving of $26,600 a year in salaries was effected, to the delight of economy-minded Sir Winston...