Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fisher, 29, a clerk in a mailorder house in Rocky Mount, N.C., who had been briefly champion with 91 hours, and was raring to try again. Allowed Edith: "I feel as fine as a frog hair split four ways-and you don't get no finer than that. Lord willing, and the creek don't rise, I'm going to win this contest...
...Second Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70 by Roman legions under the future Emperor Titus-a bomb shattered Buenos Aires' Knesset Israel Synagogue. After that 1947 bombing, Head Rabbi Guillermo Schlesinger wandered in the rubble and said aloud: "What have I done? Why was the house of the Lord profaned?" A black-robed figure stepped forward and answered: "Prejudice, hate and ignorance have struck." His hand outstretched, Father Carlos Cucchetti added: "I come to offer you my sympathy." Replied the Rabbi : "I shall never forget your kindness...
...Speakers. The piece, on which Composer Stockhausen spent a year and a half, utilized the sound of the human voice along with pure electronic sounds. Fragmented into vowels and consonants and later reassembled, the voice sounded "Praise the Lord" over weird sonorities. Later, a panel tackled the question on everybody's mind: Is this still music? Yes, said the panelists (including Stockhausen), despite letters from puzzled listeners asking whether their radios had been affected by "interplanetary static" or whether they had been listening to "part of the opera Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
VICTORY: THE LIFE OF LORD NELSON (393 pp.)-Oliver Warner-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...Lord Nelson is the name given in Royal Navy wardrooms to a poker hand containing three Jacks. In the British tradition of understatement, this may or may not bear reference to the fact that Horatio, Lord Nelson, was a man with one eye, one arm and one idea-to beat the French. The latest and one of the best of the great sailor's biographies logs in scholarly detail the main tacks of a gusty life that carried him to the top of the column in London's Trafalgar Square-not to mention the Nelson monument in Dublin...