Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children's lilting voices rose in unison: '"Dis long time gal me nevah see yah." Gilbert and Sullivan it was not, and the Gal the children were seeing and serenading was no ordinary dame but Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. At the crowded National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica, a children's chorus a thousand strong was singing a Jamaican folk song that the Queen had requested. The occasion...
...that was just the beginning. In his freshman year Walker rushed for 1616 yards and led his team to the Sugar Bowl. Once there, the undefeated Bulldogs whipped Notre Dame to earn their first-ever national college championship...
...night before the Notre Dame game (this year's version is Sunday), you see more than 250 people stretched sleeping baging on tater-lots or passing aluminum-foil pipes from mouth to mouth. The spirt is communal, the campus police are tolerant and the Southern California weather rarely spoils the occasion...
...became state-of-the-American-art. It too was popular only in the U.S. Now there are lethal injections, which are seen as still more "humane." This latest technical refinement, which the European press finds chilling and fascinating, seems sure to remain strictly a U.S. practice. Sums up Notre Dame Theology Professor
...Jesus ever vengeful? Ordinary people are. "Execution is primarily a vengeance mechanism," says Notre Dame's Hauerwas, a pacifist, "but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Vengeance is a way society gestures to itself that justice has force against injustice." A main point of criminal laws, after all, is to make private feuds unnecessary. "No society should put the burden on me to seek personal retribution," says New York University's Herbert I. London, a social historian. "The state has an obligation not to make me a killer...