Word: lordes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson blanked the Lord Jeffs in the three doubles matches. The Harvard units all appeared to play much better as tandems than their Amherst counter-parts...
...liberated Europe in World War II. Eighteen heads of state or chiefs of government were on hand, as well as a score of foreign ministers. Among the major Western allies only Britain, a country with special ties to Eisenhower, did not send a delegation of the highest echelon. Lord Mountbatten, leader of the British contingent, was outranked by most other delegates, but had a special place at the rites as an old comrade-in-arms of Ike's. Perhaps the warmest expression of affection came from France's Charles de Gaulle, another wartime colleague and friend, whose eyes...
...Ambassadors Charles Yost of the U.S., Armand Bérard of France, Yakov Malik of the Soviet Union, and Lord Caradon of Britain gathered around the polished mahogany dining table in Bérard's Park Avenue flat...
...sense. To the believing Christian, death is a moment not of annihilation but of resurrection, when a soul's turbulent earthly journey comes to a happy end in eternal life. American Protestant funeral rites traditionally reflected this belief in such comfortable old favorites as the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my Shepherd") and the promises of Jesus ("I am the Resurrection and the Life"), at least until the more unctuous funeral-parlor euphemisms began to avoid any confrontation at all with the idea of death. Roman Catholic rites, on the other hand, were infected by a grim medieval preoccupation...
Speaking to pilgrims in St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday of Holy Week, the Pope identified the present-day sufferings of the church with the agony of Christ. "The Lord tests us," he declared. "The church suffers from the abandonment by so many Catholics of the fidelity that centuries-old tradition merits." Even "favored sons" engage in destructive criticism, and by their defections, "certain ecclesiastics and religious crucify the church." At Holy Thursday services next day, he spoke of the "practically schismatic ferment that divides and subdivides the church. How can the living and true church be authentic...