Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, they got some version of universal key card access--thank the good Lord! But new problems began immediately. What House am I at? Is it not universal after eight? Before six? And what happens with daylight savings time? Some universality in universalness would be helpful...
...first, their song went almost unheard. The tumult of voices and laughter and a steady stream of worshippers spilling out of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, a crowd happy at the end of the Easter Vigil and the resurrection of their Lord, at first obscured the crowd of joyful singers. As they sang and danced in celebration, they offered hands and made spaces for the growing throng of onlookers. My friends and I were soon drawn into the circle. Those baptized and received into the Church by Pope John Paul II himself that night, were of every race...
...LORD, HAVE MERCY...
Addressing a packed and relatively diverse room, Jaque roused the audience to a feverish pitch with a series of "hallelujah"s and "praise the lord"s before introducing the first group...
...well have been wrapped in a burka, the full-body shroud Afghan women are forced to wear. But she's emerged to give voice to those very women. "Silence," she says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power in 1996. Women, who made up 40% of doctors and 70% of teachers in the capital, were forced to abandon Western clothes and stay indoors behind windows painted black "for their own good." If they show any skin or go outside without...