Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said yeah. When he ran out of papers to buy in Canada, Thomson shifted overseas and bought Edinburgh's venerable Scotsman. He took advertising off the front page and perked up the news coverage. He waded into television, setting up Scotland's first commercial channel. He bought Lord Kemsley's newspaper chain in 1959 and found himself on Fleet Street as the proprietor of the august Sunday Times...
Thomson was also determined to have a peerage. When he discovered that Canadians are not eligible for that honor, he became a British citizen and kept badgering everyone he knew in British politics, including Prime Minister Macmillan. Finally, last year he got his peerage and decided to call himself Lord Thomson of Fleet. Why had he gone to all the trouble? "It was the best way to prove to Canadians that I'm a success...
...defection, but the indulgence structure still stands. According to Canon 911, "all men are to value indulgences highly," and indulgences of differing lengths are granted for various acts. Uttering "My God and my all" carries an indulgence of 300 days. If, "with faith, piety and love" one says "My lord and my God" at the elevation of the host during Mass, one gets an indulgence of seven years. Kissing the Pope's ring carries with it a 300-day indulgence but a bishop's gets only 50. Ascending the holy stairs in Rome on one's knees...
...running? You know these things I can't understand. It's not that I need to have you tell me. What counts most is just that somebody knows, and it's you. That helps a lot. So I'll follow along, okay? But lead, Lord. Now I've got to run. Are you running with me, Jesus...
...money has been lost, and about two dozen people are caught up in a cybernetic tangle. We've missed our plane, which isn't our fault, and I was due in Chicago to participate in a meeting forty-five minutes ago. Please cool everybody off, Lord, including...