Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing less than a cheap statistical game played against the unsuspecting president and the governing bodies. No refuge from reality should be sought in easy dismissive remarks about the long-range. This is unworthy of any analytical mind and contrary to common sense. In the long-run, as Lord John Maynard Keynes said, we all will be dead and so may be Harvard as we know it today if its administration is permitted to continue on its present course...
Eighteen year-old Tyrone Phoenix died at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Massachusetts General Hospital, po- lice said. Two passengers, Akida Johnson, 19,and Cory Lord, 18, were injured, while two othersin the car escaped unhurt...
...Bram Stoker's Dracula"? Though the screenplay is more faithful than most vampire movies to the book's plot, its Dracula is light-years from Stoker's. The novel's count was no demon lover; he was a pestilence, the lord of bats and rats, and his touch was not romantic but rabid. He represented unseductive evil. Bram Stoker's Dracula proposed that English innocence could be sucked dry by European decadence, until English common sense drove a stake through its lurid heart...
...soon be proposed for Catholics in all English-speaking countries. Churchgoers of many traditions find profound comfort in singing hymns and reciting prayers that are shared across generations. Many are not prepared to sacrifice majesty in the name of fairness, to replace the resounding "Our Father . . ." that opens the Lord's Prayer with this rendition from the United Church of Christ press: "God, our Father and Mother, who is in the heavens, may your name be made holy . . ." Even parishioners who are eager to see women play a more visible leadership role may feel that making the language more inclusive...
...shown that it has a penchant for feasting on high powered teams. The Engineers (1-0-2 overall, 0-0-0 ECAC) are coming off a stunning 2-2 tie of mighty eastern lord Boston University...