Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RETURNING to London after two weeks at the U.N. General Assembly, including several talks with Andrei Gromyko, the British Foreign Secretary reported one overriding impression. The Russians now clearly understand, said Lord Home, that the West is fully prepared to fight a nuclear war for the freedom of Berlin. Whether or not the Russians have really only just learned this fact, the U.S. has implicitly accepted it for a long time. For many Americans, this decision may be merely emotional or instinctive. But behind the emotions and the instinct lies a carefully reasoned moral case. That case...
...divided into five groups called decades, with ten beads per decade. In saying the rosary, the user recites ten Hail Marys for each decade, meditating as he does so on a meaningful episode in the life of Christ or Mary, known as a "mystery." Each decade begins with the Lord's Prayer and ends with a Gloria ("Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end"). In a full recitation, which takes 20 minutes, the user goes around...
...Superior Court judge, returning in 1957 to a lucrative law practice in order to support his big family (nine children and stepchildren). When Governor Robert Meyner compiled a list of 26 suitable successors, Hughes was not even on the list. He was finally hand-picked by Democratic Boss Thorn Lord and other party leaders only after several better-known possibilities had declined...
...Goodman saw Army service during the war "but all of it in the U.S.," suggesting that The End of It might be just another attempt to ring the bell of Adano with a ballpoint pen. But he has collected his material with all the thorough absorption of a Walter Lord assembling data on the voyage of the Titanic, and after a turgid beginning in which the book nearly founders in the rhetoric of Why and Wherefore, he writes closely and often superbly, offering on the side a fascinating lesson in tactical warfare...
...middle of the air. Or does it signify the hidden Zaddikim of Hebraic tradition, the 36 secret saints who are born in every generation and are known to metaphysicians as the Chariot of God? Or does it simply mean the Shekinah, the presence of the Lord in every man alive...