Word: dominione
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...down in London itself by Irish assassins of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. But even that crisis was solved after Prime Minister Lloyd George discovered that in the Irish tongue there is no word for "Republic." Created was a Saorstat ("Free State") which Englishmen can think of as a "dominion" while Irishmen plume themselves on the dignity of President Eamon de Valera who refuses to attend the Silver Jubilee next week and insists that Free Staters are "not British subjects...
...Harvard will still play Old Dominion, a very good team, and the Crimson does have captain center Reka Cserny and a healthy junior guard Jess Holsey, arguably two of the top three players in the Ivy League...
...wasn’t a computer printout that propelled Princeton outfielder B.J. Szymanski’s name to the top of prospect lists last spring. It was one sweet swing at a 95 mile per hour offering from Old Dominion uber-prospect Justin Verlander...
Bank One and J.P. Morgan Chase. Now the pairings are trickling down the asset chain. In late August Citigroup said it was buying its way into retail banking in Texas by acquiring privately held First American Bank. Two days later, Canada's Toronto-Dominion Bank announced it would spend $3.8 billion for 51% of Banknorth Group, based in Portland, Maine, which is itself expanding southward by acquisition...
Once upon a time, in the "Dominion Of New Haven," it was illegal to kiss your children on Sunday. Or make a bed or cut your hair or eat mince pies or cross a river unless you were a clergyman riding your circuit. If you lived in Connecticut in 1650, there was no mistaking Sunday for just another shopping day; regardless of whether you'd go to hell for breaking the Sabbath, you could certainly go to jail. Centuries later, the sense that Sunday is special is still wired in us, a miniature sabbatical during which to peel...