Word: lording
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...They developed over time," says Lord Bullock -- he became a life peer in 1976 -- so he decided to study that process in a comparative, parallel biography of the two, something no one else has done. Bullock is the author of Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952), the first great postwar biography of the dictator. "I'm a narrative historian, and in the course of the narrative," he says, "it comes clear" precisely how Hitler and Stalin rose to supreme power in Germany and Russia...
...time when 1 out of every 3 British marriages ends in divorce, however, the Yorks are hardly an unusual case. "I think the appeal of the monarchy is precisely that these are ordinary people with ordinary problems," said Lord St. John of Fawsley, a British constitutional expert. He pointed to "the prevailing climate of moral opinion" that accepts divorce. The royal family, if anything, has had more than its share of split-ups: Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister, ended her marriage with Lord Snowdon 14 years ago, and Andrew's sister Princess Anne is separated from her husband. Charles...
Social Distortion sticks to standard eight-bar rock chord progressions most of the time, but they never promise innovation, just catharsis. And sometimes humor. In "99 to Life," Ness sings about lonely weekends spent in jail. "I wish she could be here, lord if she only could/Instead she's lying in a pool of blood/She was my baby, thought she'd be my wife/I killed my baby, I killed her with my knife...
...peaceful and democratic solution." That is thanks largely to four outsiders: Javier Perez de Cuellar, the former U.N. Secretary-General, who laid the ground for the intervention last fall; his successor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who engineered the Security Council's decision two weeks ago to dispatch the troops; Lord Carrington, the chief envoy in the European Community's effort to broker an overall political settlement among the pieces of the shattered Yugoslav federation; and Cyrus Vance, who has labored for five months as the personal envoy of the Secretary- General to negotiate a cessation of hostilities durable enough...
...oversee the mission of Memorial Church, who will do so? The Memorial Church is not organized under the ecclesiastical auspices of any denominational hierarchy; her congregation is little involved in her government. If the Minister in the Memorial Church is not to be established as an absolute ecclesiastical lord, then he University which helps to finance the Memorial Church must take some responsibility for overseeing her mission and activities. And, although the Memorial Church exists within the walls of the College, we should remember that general standards of academic freedom are not necessarily those by which a man called...