Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peppery independent, Rowse said he enjoyed Lord Russell's "naughtiness, but for his judgment of political matters, I have no regard." Now the advocate of British disarmament at any price, Russell not long ago was arguing learnedly for a preventive war against Russia. Years before, he was fiercely opposed to Britain's defending itself against the Kaiser's Germany. Groused Rowse: "You need to be very clever to be so silly as that...
Whoever "pursues his claims to the extreme limits of legality has already crossed the borders of justice. Nothing will help you more in developing the sense of jus tice among men than the appreciation and practice of genuine charity, the subject of the teachings of the Divine Lord and the fruit of His work of redemption...
...Novelist Albert Camus, especially in his latest book, The Fall ("I think Camus is on a pilgrimage and he hasn't arrived"). Oddly, Theologian McCord also includes Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. If anyone criticizes such literary judgments, McCord has an answer: "I think the first thing the Lord requires of us is honesty. He requires you to be honest before he requires you to assent to something...
Amherst lived up to its advanced notices by playing a wide open type of soccer with long passes across the field. But while the Lord Jeff forwards were big and relatively fast, it was the visitors' defense that made the difference. Their two fullbacks, Co-Captain Don Hicks and Drew Mallory, were all over the field, breaking up Crimson attacks and feeding their own forwards. As varsity coach Bruce Munro commented after the game, "they just ran over our forwards...
Amherst's first goal typified its offense for the entire game. The Crimson controlled play for the first two minutes when a Lord Jeff halfback stole the ball and fed a long pass to Pieter Van der Torn, the outside left. Van der Torn got by Lanny Keyes when the Crimson fullback made one of his rare mis-kicks and then passed the ball across the goal mouth to Dan Sykes, the outside right, who was just standing there, unmolested. Sykes had a clear shot for the goal and the Lord Jeffs had a lead that they never relinquished...