Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every night," remarked Kansas City Councilman Charles W. Fisher, "I asked the Lord for guidance. When I saw that black cloud and the sheet of rain, I knew he sent it, and my prayers were answered.'' Those menacing black clouds, and the fierce thunderstorms accompanied by hailstones bigger than cherries, played an important role last week in answering the prayers of Councilman Fisher: he and the rest of his Democratic coalition slate, aided in part by the weather that kept many voters indoors, swept into office in Kansas City's municipal elections. In the process they knocked...
...written examination is not practical, Lord said, since concentrators do not follow a set study program...
Sophomore and Junior concentrators in Slavic will take half-hour oral examinations on Russian literature to determine Honors candidacy, Albert B. Lord '34, chairman of the Slavic Department, announced yesterday. The experimental test, following recommendations made last spring by the Committee on Educational Policy, will be given during the second week...
...Most Holy . . . I promise that I shall endeavor to live, as far as it is in my power, in accordance with the ideals of Jewish life . . . Most fervently, therefore, do I herewith pronounce the Jewish confession of faith: Shma yisroel adonoy elohenu adonoy echod [Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One]. Boruch shem kvod malchuso I'olom voed [Praised be his name whose glorious kingdom is for ever and ever...
George Wilcken Romney, at 51, is a broad-shouldered, Bible-quoting broth of a man who burns brightly with the fire of missionary zeal. On the Lord's Day, and whenever else he can find time, he is a fervent apostle for the Mormon Church, in which he is a high official. But at all other times his missionary zeal is best defined by a plaque that hangs in the walnut-paneled Detroit office where he reigns as boss of American Motors. A facetious gift from the Cleveland Auto Dealers Association, it reads: "To George Romney, critic, lecturer, anthropologist...