Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cause I'm religious," he says. "I just want to know, because you know I can drink and still be religious. If I want to stop drinking, it's because I want to, not because I'm disobeying God. I'm not defying the Lord...
...played Lord of the Flies in the remoter woods of Rock Creek Park in Washington. We collected stones in bushel baskets and hid them among the dogwood blossoms. And then, nasty little sociopaths, 10 or 12 years old, we lay in ambush and at the signal hurled rocks full force at our enemies, who were led by the boy with yellow teeth...
...Jewish refugee from Romania, Wisse attended an officially Protestant high school, going to the mandatory Christmas assemblies and saying the Lord's Prayer every morning. Yet the Montreal of her youth was also a Yiddish cultural mecca, after Jewish immigrants settled in Canada in the 1920s and again after World...
...that if the people of God will not rise against him over church business, why should the government? There are telltale silences, though. The Rev. Alvin Miller, Bethel's associate pastor, refuses to share the Bethel pulpit with Lyons, glowering from the pews. "When you've done wrong, the Lord is going to forgive you," he says, "but if you get caught taking cookies out of the jar, you've still got to suffer the consequences...
...Lord Jeffrey Archer, British politician and novelist...