Word: dominione
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Daley is seen skewering his rivals, and an occasional ally when necessary, in his long march to dominion. Kennedy depicts him often playing "the Irish warrior hanging the enemy heads on the gate...
...most popular Lewis book of the 1970s is Mere Christianity (1952), the work of straightforward evangelism that snatched White House Felon Charles Colson out of Screwtape's dominion. This highly original statement of wholly unoriginal doctrine was first f prepared as a series of talks "on the BBC. Lewis, whose |s prose comes clad in the crisp white linen of logic, starts from mankind's inherent sense of right and wrong. Think about this, Lewis says: men feel wet when they fall into water; fish do not. If men feel "wet"-alien-in a world where evil abounds...
...Dominion, John Dalton, 46, easily made Howell, who had run in 1969 and 1973, a three-time loser, picking up 56% of the 1.2 million votes cast. Dalton, a moderate conservative, overcame the 2-to-l Democratic bulge in the Virginia electorate by attracting twice as many independent voters as Howell. Only the election of middle-of-the-road Democrat Charles S. (Chuck) Robb as Lieut. Governor gave the Democrats any joy. Lawyer Robb, 38, Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law, is already being touted as a possible gubernatorial candidate...
...Vintner John's armigeral sons emigrated to the American colonies aboard the good ship Safety in 1635. Jimmy's 11th generation ancestor Thomas became a well-to-do Virginia planter, while his elder brother John acquired an even richer swath of Old Dominion farm land. It was John's son, Robert ("King") Carter, who became the first American millionaire. According to Harold Brooks-Baker, Debrett's managing director, hustling King Carter owned 300,000 acres, more than 1,000 slaves and perhaps the largest collection of books in the colonies -at a time, notes Brooks-Baker...
...overrode any urge for thrift. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was determined to show that Canadians want to stick together as a nation despite the election victory of the separatist Parti Québécois last November in Quebec, his country's largest province. Said Trudeau in his Dominion Day address: "The sort of bickering which has too often been characteristic of Canadian life is giving way to a renewed willingness to open our hearts and minds to each other...