Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Commonwealth," said Lord Hailsham, deputy leader of the House of Lords, "is hopeless to define." In its cover story on Queen Elizabeth II (June 29), TIME tackled the job of definition. Last week the British government had ordered 9,000 copies to send out to increase understanding of the Commonwealth...
...believe in God, the Eternal Spirit, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and our Father, and to his deeds we testify...
...ancient King Indradyumna, it is said, sought to find the Lord of the Universe-Jagannath, one of the names of Vishnu, the Preserver. After many hardships, it was miraculously revealed to him that Jagannath would come to him as a log of wood, and soon thereafter a huge log with strange markings appeared, floating in the Bay of Bengal near the city of Puri. The king ordered his carpenters to carve an image from it, but their chisels broke. At last the Lord Vishnu himself appeared, disguised as an old carpenter, and the king agreed...
Twenty minutes later, Subhadra's cart shuddered on its way. At last, in a din of gongs and cymbals and a blaze of flags came the Lord of the Universe himself. The sound of praying paced the god's slow journey to his garden house, and before his passage people fell back in heaps...
Watching from the Raja's balcony, the librarian of the Jagannath Temple turned to a Western visitor: "To witness the Lord of Lords on the Holy Car," he said, "guarantees the beholder eternal beatitude and absorption in the Supreme Being...