Word: lasse
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Elizabeth never ceased to think of herself as a country lass from Scotland. Every August she repaired to her home at the Castle of Mey on the coast of northern Scotland. There she loved to listen to her collection of bagpipe records, to don waders and go fishing for salmon with Prince Charles or simply to tramp through the rain, chatting with the locals...
Elizabeth, the Queen Mum, never ceased to think of herself as a country lass from Scotland. She spent each August at the Castle of Mey, listening to her bagpipe records and fishing for salmon with Prince Charles. Sometimes she would simply tramp through the rain, chatting with the locals. Once, it is said, she noticed a farmhand struggling to herd his lambs into a pen. Instantly she clambered over a stone wall to help out. It seemed, she later said, the neighborly thing...
...Huskies opened the scoring when a Crimson defender lost the puck in her skates. Huskies left winger Bekka Lass picked up the puck and came in alone, beating Jessica Ruddock to take a 1-0 lead...
...highlight of the evening, however, is “Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein, or Ambivalence.” Set in a psychiatrist’s office, it focuses on the conversation between a shrink, Laura (Kiran Deol), and her needy, gay patient, Hendryk (Clint Froelich). Hendryk is a marvelously crafted character, at once thoughtful and highly amusing. He lapses into different states throughout the fairly long scene and muses on existence and the inherent ambivalence of man. While Hendryk is ranting, Laura is concerned with her own pain and pleads with her lifelong partner...
...Professor Henry Higgins made a duchess out of a cockney flower girl. Could he have done the same for a lass from the antipodes? Unlikely, according to renowned cultural relativist Mahathir Mohamad, who is also Prime Minister of Malaysia. In a speech last week on the general theme of The Evils of the West, Mahathir accused the English-speaking world of forcing its language on the East?and ridiculed Australians for speaking that language so abysmally. He worked up his best Oz accent to quote Henry Higgins' famous tutorial: "The rine in Spine fell minely on the pline...