Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many apprehensive Americans in xenophobic 1941, the new British ambassador, Lord Halifax, was unwelcome...
...aloof, too much the quiet, impenetrable aristocrat. He was not in any sense a guy Brooklyn would go for. Worse, he was a Chamberlain man-one of the men of Munich. Why had Churchill sent him, anyhow? Forecasting his mission, people called him "Lord Holy Fox" and quoted Anglophobe Quincy Howe: "England expects every American to do his duty...
...behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead...
...angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goeth before you into Galilee...
...oldest gal o' mine name Roma-jean purely loves to sing. She kin sing a church song low and she kin line it out sweet. . . . Preacher, we purely need that two bits a Sunday you pay yore choir singers. If you can use her I reckon the good Lord shore will love...