Word: dira
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...much of its career, the world has functioned on the principle of predestined and even tragic inevitability. Most of the planet's religions are steeped in a fatalism that teaches acceptance of dira necessitas, the fearful inevitability of things. The Greeks' Moira, the Romans' fatum, the Muslims' kismet-all enforce the will of an otherworldly plan, against which it is useless to exert a defiant or creative will...
...ornate presidential suite in Catete Palace, he continues to live, as he has since 1944, in a middleclass, three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Avenue. Three bedrooms are none too many: the President, his wife Jandira and their only son Eduardo, 11, share the place with Jan-dira's mother and sister, both widows...
...soir Monsieur le professeur Morize assistera a un diner apres lequel il nous dira quelques mots. Tout membre de l'universite qui s'interesserait sera le bienvenue. La reunion aura lieu dans le Lowell House Common Room a dix heures vingt precises...
...impossible, form, it provides only "nonsense syllables" for the singers. Thus the basses open by chanting "easygoingly but richly," in the following language: "Ta da di da ra da da." The tenors enter with "Dum pum pum pum ti di diri diri"; then the ladies: "Tara dira dara diri didi...
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