Word: pakenham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Britain admitted it had lost its Tudor bet. In the House of Lords, Civil Aviation Minister Lord Pakenham solemnly intoned: "I have regretfully come to the conclusion that this type of aircraft should not continue to be used for carrying passengers...
...Such light," Laborite Lord Pakenham† told Britain's House of Lords last month during a debate on atomic energy, "as has been thrown on dark places has shown them to be even darker than was supposed." The benighted areas referred to were the minds of Russians...
...Lenin, and the official army paper Red Star felt obliged to issue a warning. "Soviet generals," it announced, "who fail to pursue such studies will lose out in assignments to responsible military posts." In Britain, where the Lords this time were debating Communist aggression in Western Europe, Lord Pakenham had a word of enlightenment about that as well...
...Great grandnephew of Major General Sir Edward Michael Pakenham, who was killed by General Andrew Jackson's men at New Orleans...