Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...heart -it is on its own. Most unnerving of all are the giant loops on such rides as the Screamin' Demon at Kings Island, the Turn of the Century at Great America near San Francisco, and King Kobra at Richmond's Kings Dominion...
...Jesus" on occasion.) Other parishioners disapprove of ordaining women on principle. But many members are delighted. Said Sarah Mallory, 65: "Now I've seen God's man put together as he should be-male and female. Remember where it says in Genesis: 'He gave them dominion.' " On her first regular work day as a priest, Means cleaned her house, then visited Larue-Carter psychiatric hospital, where she calls on the sick. Declared a woman patient: "She will be a keystone because of her love of people, her stamina, her inner strength." Later at the Women...
...Thomas Growing Up has any message--beyond the author's own rich appreciation of childhood innocence, those days when boys exulted in "inaccurate" drawings of naked girls--it comes in the show's final moments. As Williams walks offstage into darkness chanting the famous "And Death Shall Have No Dominion," the lights come up on his storyteller's chair, now holding only a set of battered manuscripts. The device and its meaning--the immortality of art after its creator's death--are predictable enough; their sudden effectiveness here is a measure, perhaps the very best, of the extent of Williams...