Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tour guide was Rear Admiral William Lukash, the President's genial doctor. His seven-page report covering Ford's annual physical was given out in all its glorious detail. Dr. Lukash had opposed release; Ford ordered it done. As a matter of fact, after one gets through Ford's postnasal drip and a severe cramp in his left calf, the report turns out to be one of the best documents recently issued from the White House. Ford is in bully health...
...Save us from the time of trial." In the Nicene Creed, "Maker of ... all things visible and invisible" becomes "Maker of ... all things seen and unseen," a considerable existential and semantic change. In the Commendation part of the burial service, in both Rites, the phrase "at whose coming in glorious majesty to judge the world" is omitted, minimizing the implications of a Final Judgment...
...heard on their new LP, Chieftains 5 (Island Records), or the Barry Lyndon sound-track album (Warner Bros.), the Chieftains' music consists of dances and airs played on tin whistles (surprisingly debonair in sound), bones (animal), the bodhran (a goatskin drum), fiddles, harps, an oboe and, most glorious of all, the Irish bagpipes, more precisely known as the uilleann (elbow) pipes. Unlike Scottish bagpipes, which are breath-blown, the Irish pipes are pumped by a bellows under the right arm of the player, who must be able to finger and pump at the same time...
...Finance Minister does not wear a glorious crown," says Yehoshua Rabinowitz. "He is not the country's most popular fellow. If I have to step on a few toes...
...lovely pre-revolutionary house," Bertha Neustadt said. "It was a glorious setting with rolling hills, just perfect for the wedding...