Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overpowering was its impact that Pope Paul III, upon first seeing it, sank to his knees and murmured, "Lord, charge me not with my sins when thou shalt come on the Day of Judgment." Since being unveiled in 1541, Michelangelo's Last Judgment has been revered for its towering spiritual strength and enduring symbolism. The 40-by-45-ft. fresco on the west altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, on which Michelangelo labored for five years, is also a searing, unsparing personal document -- both of the unsettled world in which Michelangelo lived and of the artist's inner torment...
...Well, I'm just happy to be here. I'm going to take it one game at a time, and the good Lord willing things will work out. You know, a friend of mine once said that this is a simple game: you throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it rains. Think about that." Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh...
...Colombia's cocaine lord is gone -- but the trade flourishes...
...trafficker for more than 16 months stormed a two-story house last Thursday afternoon in Medellin and shot Pablo Escobar Gaviria dead, the wave of jubilation that swept much of the country began with the raiders themselves. "We won!" they shouted, as they raised their guns over the drug lord's body. Amid all the commotion, few remarked that at the moment he was killed, the man who had spent a year and a half running from the world's largest manhunt wasn't wearing any shoes. In dying barefoot, Pablo Escobar exited his life in a fashion antithetical...
...distress, Escobar was growing panicky about the safety of his family. In recent weeks, his brother-in-law had been killed by police and his children's teacher had been murdered by PEPES, a vigilante group thought to comprise former colleagues whom the drug lord had betrayed, but also to include hit men from the rival Cali drug cartel. Fearing they would be next, his wife and children fled early last week to Germany, seeking asylum; they were promptly deported back to Bogota...