Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York Times had to ruin it. The paper finally dropped the snooty subtext sprinkled throughout its Metro section, its Real Estate section and its none too subtle Dining In section ("Tonight, my lord, we shall attempt to eat in our very own home!") and just came out and said it. In a front-page story about the Bruce Springsteen concert was this comment: "Many people seemed, for a day at least, to exult in the fact that they too were from New Jersey...
...frolicked like unruly kids until the collective funny bone is virtually numb. After this week's senior-prom sex farce American Pie, even connoisseurs of adolescent comedy may whisper a desperate prayer: "From Austins and Adams and Wild Wild Westies, and teens that go hump in the night, Good Lord deliver...
...There?s that line in the Bible: ?Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord,?" says Dowell. "It doesn?t belong to Madeleine Albright. The U.S. wants to make Milosevic pay for what he did, but there?s a point when they have to consider Serbia?s welfare ahead of the political pain they?d feel from letting him retire unpunished." Would Milosevic, addicted to power, ever take the back way out? "He?d be tempted," says Dowell. "And a standing offer would make those close to him wonder how long he?d be around. They?d have to think about cutting...
...Copley, you'll find the grand department stores Saks, Lord and Taylor and Nieman Marcus...
...Copley, you'll find the grand department stores Saks, Lord and Taylor and Nieman Marcus...