Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brilliant, what are they? Welsh. That IS a selling point--how many Welsh indie-rock bands do you know? We know this because the title track International Velvet is a noisy thanksgiving that proclaims "Everyday I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh." The other verses go, "Deffrwch Cymry cysglyd gwlad y g,n" --which could be an elaboration on said religio-nationalistic gratitude, or, you know, something else altogether. Either way, the Welsh group is bent on going international, and in that velveteen, strangely alien way that European groups have of taking over...
...thousand years ago, fasting to concentrate on one's wrongdoings may have seemed like a good idea, but today it is just one more way your Day of Repentance messes with my busy schedule. I won't lie to you, Lord, because of hunger (and because of this flu bug that I caught from my roommate) my mind wandered to just about every subject but repentance. Actually, I spent most of the service thinking about ways to bolster my Rhodes application, and staring at this girl down the aisle who looked like she'd make a great First Lady...
...think I am not properly repented and that I don't deserve to be inscribed in the Book of Life. If my Hebrew school teacher was correct, that would mean that I'll die before the next Day of Repentance rolls around. With all due respect, Lord, you would be making a big mistake. In the prayer book, it is written that "prayer, repentance and righteousness will avert the severe decree." Well, I am righteous. One out of three...
...sandals and shorts, Blake, 16, approached his school's blue flagpole. He leaned forward, placed his hands on it and bowed his head. Soon he was joined by four friends, all jeans-clad and smelling sweetly of soap and shampoo. They formed a circle, and someone entreated the Lord aloud: "I pray you do wonders through the pole and let your wonders show through the pole." First a trickle, then dozens of students arrived; eventually more than 200 gathered in tight concentric circles around the pole. They prayed for Maize's students, for its principal, for Bill Clinton. Blake Langhofer...
...though, what it means to be a believer when believing is no longer en vogue. And I will confidently, if quietly--for I have no interest in proselytizing--continue to echo Joshua, who gave that definitive ultimatum, which I paraphrase: "If it does not please you to serve the Lord, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Harvardites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua...