Word: lorde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lawmakers unimpressed with Hanoi's efforts to account for American MIAs attacked President Clinton fornormalizing relations with Vietnam. At a House International Relations Committee hearing boycotted by Democrats, several GOP lawmakers alleged thatVietnamese officials are holding the remains of up to 400 U.S. servicemen. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord testified that there was no evidence to back up such a claim, and that Vietnam lacked an incentive to do so in any case. Even so, Committee Chairman Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y.) threatened to withhold funds needed to open a U.S. embassy in Hanoi -- an option that Senate Majority...
...passionately spiritual music of the late Olivier Messiaen, Nagano sent the French composer a tape -- and got back a detailed written critique, enumerating what he had done right and wrong. The correspondence eventually led to Messiaen's arrival in Berkeley for a performance of The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ and to Nagano's participation in the 1983 world premiere in Paris of Messiaen's radiant opera St. Francis of Assisi. Eight years later, he led the controversial world premiere of composer John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer in Brussels...
...Harvard, my religious devotion some-howbegan to slip away. Once, Id' sung soprano inSingapore's Wesley Methodist Church and felt Godwas listening when I sang my favorite hymn,"Surely The Presence of the Lord is in ThisPlace." Darwin had always given me something tothink about, though, and taking E.O. Wilson'sclass on evolutionary biology my first semesterinadvertently gave me greater pause. And inChaucer section, discussing the socialmachinations of the Church in the Middle Ages onlyfanned the fires of doubt. There was more to itthan that, of course, but certainly I was growingdiscouraged. Going to services at Harvard-Epworth,the only...
...Copley, you'll find the grand departmentstores Saks, Lord and Taylor and Nieman Marcus...
...prayed to God and asked him for a lot of things, and he delivered throughout the entire time," O'Grady told TIME in an interview after he had returned to the Aviano Air Base in Italy. "When I prayed for rain, he gave me rain. One time I prayed, Lord, let me at least have someone know I'm alive and maybe come rescue me. And guess what? That night T.O. [fellow F-16 pilot Thomas O. Hanford] came up on the radio." At that moment, O'Grady knew his ordeal was coming...