Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Show pity, Lord, O Lord forgive...
...Egypt 1) a 6,700-sq. mi. triangle of desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt and Britain set up a joint rule over the Sudan, drew the political boundary between Egypt and the Sudan along the 22nd parallel...
...more than indigestion. The old warrior abandoned his plans to meet Lady Churchill, arriving from London at the Nice airport, and took to his bed. An eddy of concern welled up on the world's front pages as Dr. Roberts telephoned Sir Winston's personal physician, Lord Moran, in London. Arriving by the next plane. Lord Moran, 75, headed straight for La Pausa, the sun-splashed Roquebrune villa of Publisher Emery Reves, where Churchill has been spending a good part of his recent vacations...
Florabelle bared her tooth and cackled up at him: "Lord, Sugar," she said, "it ain't none of that. It's that I'm one-tenth Negro...
...Lord. When a child dies, the mother smiles triumphantly. He has completed a risky voyage through a dark world...