Word: lording
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Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic by Bette Bao Lord. When Lord went to fetch her father's ashes from a Red Chinese prison, she was told that his ears had been torn off. It was all she had to hear to know that the official report of suicide was a lie. The author, wife of the former ambassador to China Winston Lord, confronts 40 years of cultural distortion in the People's Republic...
...LORD'S WORK Construction began on upper Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1892, but the Gothic structure's three elaborate stone towers remain unfinished. In 1980 master builders started to teach local youths the art of stone carving and hope to finish the job -- in about 60 years...
...Lord bless you for that...
...about that. "I'd much rather go to a fancy mall and shop a sale," admits Sheryl Rolnick, 39, of Coral Springs, but one day recently she drove out to Sawgrass to do a little bargain hunting. "The discount malls are having an effect," she says. "Lately, my local Lord & Taylor and Jordan Marsh are dead...
...that its distinctive features -- every boy has a room of his own and attends regular tutorials, known as Private Business -- ensure that it will continue to produce as many renegades as rulers. The only Etonian orthodoxy is unorthodoxy. Yes, there are still names on the school lists like Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, and the names of sons of foreign rulers, but there are also, no doubt, future Guy Burgesses, George Orwells and other eccentric mavericks. One of the proudest and most legendary of all Old Etonians, after all, was known as Captain Hook...