Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israel, where flags flew at half-staff in mourning, Premier Levi Eshkol vowed that "the Lord shall avenge their blood." Israelis speculated on earthly reprisals, from bombing the 17,000 Iraqi troops stationed in Jordan to knocking out Baghdad TV. However, the executions presented Israel with a cruel dilemma: any reprisal would inevitably endanger the 2,500 Jews still living in Iraq...
...Herald proved to be too cryptic for that. In fact, most of the photos were not unlike those in my own town newspaper: first-of-the-New-Year babies understandably bemused over the sudden transition from anonymity to notoriety; vindicated matrons having just reasserted the triumph of their risen Lord through a successful church bakery sale; or, inevitably, the distraught but delighted graduating high school class. All smiling, self-conscious, vacuous. Or are they really vacuous? Just what am I allowed to see behind the conventional stance and posture with which they protect themselves from the photographer...
...other Avalon game, entitled Year of the Lord, is based on the seasons of the Christian calendar. Or, as the instructions feverishly explain, "The church goes through the whole life of Christ once a year. This makes a swell racetrack for a game, through Advent into Christmas, off again to Epiphany, around the corner to Holy Week and Easter, and finally, circle the board to Pentecost...
...museum and the rich collection it houses are the almost single-handed achievements of one man-Sao Paulo's Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand ("Chatô") Bandeira de Mello, a short stout press lord with a considerable resemblance to New York's late Fiorello...
...heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's; but the earth hath he given to the children of men. -Psalm...