Word: lording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Army general said no. The Lord Mayor said yes. The $21,000 question: Was Interpreter Hannelore Nelson wearing a bra at the annual asparagus festival in Mainz, West Germany...
...Lord Mayor and the police chief came to court prepared to say that, as far as they could tell, she had been wearing a bra. Without settling whether a bra should be required, the court recommended that the Army pay $21,000 in retribution, unemployment benefits, court costs and taxes. The Army, in a tacit admission that the affair had grown out of proportion, accepted the settlement. "I don't know what the whole fuss is about," said Miss Nelson. "I never go without a brassiere. It's not my style...
...Lord had spared me this long, I felt I should go back and do it," Fogel added...
...business of living." The school itself was more humble: 13 students, ages six to 30, enrolled under the tutelage of Calvinist Eliphalet ("Elephant") Pearson in a converted carpenter's shop in Andover, Mass. "On Monday the scholars recite what they can remember of the sermons heard on the Lord's day previous," wrote Pearson in 1780. "On Saturday the bills are paid and the punishments administered...
DIVORCED. Princess Margaret, 47, younger sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; and Lord Snowdon, 48, a photographer raised to the peerage after their Westminster Abbey wedding; after 18 years of marriage, two children; in London. The routine two-minute court hearing granted the first divorce to an immediate member of the British royal family since 1540, when Henry VIII divorced Anne of Cleves...