Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million men under arms, but its equipment is obsolete. With an annual defense budget of just over $6 billion, the military modernization will be a long time coming. China's permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council gives it little more than disruptive potential. "Geostrategically," says Winston Lord, a former U.S. ambassador to Beijing, "China needs us more than we need them...
...prima luce," Dante's light of creation, the brilliant ignition of God, against the satanic negation, the candle snuffer. Those uncomfortable with the idea of evil mean this: You don't say that the shadow has the same stature as the light. If you speak of the Dark Lord, of the "dark side of Sinai," do you foolishly empower darkness...
Having had a king, ambassador, poet, professor and economist at the podium, Harvard decided to extend an invitation to a baron. As a result, Lord Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington addressed the 336th Commencement exercises...
...society produced another simplified version, the Good News Bible (113 million Bibles and Testaments in print); the 1991 Bible is even less highbrow. In Today's Family Bible, for example, angels proclaim Jesus' birth by saying, "Praise God in heaven! Peace on earth to everyone who pleases God." The Lord's Prayer runs, "Our Father in heaven, help us to honor your name. Come and set up your kingdom...
...houses of Parliament in 42 years. At issue was the fate of an unknown number of Nazi collaborators who immigrated to Britain after World War II. Previously they could only be charged with war crimes in Britain if they were British citizens when they committed their offenses. Lord Shawcross, Britain's chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, railed against the bill when it was sent to the Queen above the peers' protest. "This is not a house of wimps," he declared. "It is the House of Lords. We are expected by the public to express our view honestly and clearly...