Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headlines in the West German press by smuggling out of East Germany a little Negerkind named Roswitha Kubik. Louis Armstrong and his band raced over from a Stuttgart concert to put on a special Saturday afternoon party for Hoosman's Munich children. Last week Munich's Lord Mayor Thomas Wimmer promised Hoosman official support for "your great cause." Al Hoosman of Waterloo, Iowa, a man with a cause, as well as an itch to write verse, combined his two interests...
...research, probably in mathematics, physics or chemistry, has his choice of General Motors or National Merit Scholarship to pay his way next fall at Harvard. He does not date ("I'm not quite ready for that yet"), amuses himself with chess, classical records and books (most recent ones: Lord Jim, Of Human Bondage). His passion for mathematics, his favorite scholarly field, came to him early from his father, an engineer who works for the Bureau of Reclamation...
Across the world this week Jehovah's people gathered, family by family, in huts and houses, slum flats and luxury apartments, to celebrate their Lord's great act of deliverance-the Passover. It was the 3,271st anniversary, according to Jewish reckoning, of that dark night when the Lord moved through Egypt, striking down the firstborn, "from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon . . . and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead...
Jews are commemorating Passover with chanted prayers and symbolic foods-the bitter herbs, the salt, the unleavened bread. But on one high mountain, near Jerusalem, another people keep their Passover just as the Lord commanded Moses in the Book of Exodus, with the blood of lambs "without blemish" which are eaten in haste, loins girded for the sudden flight. These are the Samaritans...
Revenge is sweet, or so the adage goes, and the varsity tennis team got plenty of it yesterday. Coach Jack Barnaby's squad made up for last year's 5-4 loss to Amherst by shellacking the Lord Jeffs, 8 to 1, on the Soldiers Field courts...