Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when we sing the Jewish chant Eli Eli, we're as close to being Jews with their whole history of oppression and religious faith as is possible for us." Sometimes the harmony gets too close, and de Paur admits it. "I may go overboard a bit. Lord knows I deplore that homogenized effect as much as anybody-but I just can't resist a pretty chord...
...shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
...fought the war's first year in the nation's unprepared factories. Mrs. Marshall prayed: "Give him time, 0 Lord." When he talked to her, "I had the feeling that he was really talking to himself," she wrote. "It was as though he lived outside of himself and George Marshall was someone he was constantly appraising. ... He would say, 'I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment. ... It is not easy to tell men they have failed. ... I cannot allow myself to get angry. . . .'" But Mrs. Marshall also wrote: " [They] have never seen him when...
...justifies the soul and frees it from bondage to the Law and to Sin. But the faithful Christian, though he puts no trust in good works, nevertheless performs them as the result of his faith. Luther expressed this concept in a paradox: "The Christian man is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none . . . [but] . . . the Christian man is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject...
...play about with the staple food of Scotland," cried Tory M.P. Lord William Montague-Douglas-Scott, "we believe it should be done at least by a separate order, and not classified in the same sentence as dehydrated potato flour." Some M.P.s laughed, and Lord William rounded on them. "I see nothing to laugh about," he cried. "It is an insult to one of the finest foods produced in the northern hemisphere...