Word: lording
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...places. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials have long felt, however, that Gilberto's intelligence has been overrated. Believed to be the leader of the powerful Cali cocaine cartel, Gilberto, who says he is merely an honest drugstore magnate, has never been able to explain why the Medell?n drug lord Pablo Escobar-now deceased-was always trying to kill him. In any case, "the Chess Player," as Gilberto is known, miscalculated on his final move, failing to negotiate the terms of his surrender with the Colombian government. Last Friday he was arrested in a surprise raid on a Cali house...
That would have pleased Wright. But the ever combative architect also knew the importance of controversy: he liked few things better than a war of words. To the lord of Taliesin, the fact that Wisconsinites are still battling over one of his designs would have been further proof of his immortal genius...
During the service, the congregation sang the hymns "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past," "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" and "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." The Commencement Choir sang Bach's "Dona Nobis Pacem" and Thompson's "Alleluia...
Perkins concluded with a prayer: "O Lord, support us all the day long until the evening ...comes, When the fever of life is over, and our work is done, then in Thy name, grant us a safe lodging and a holy rest and peace at the last. Amen...
...There's a line from The Importance of BeingOscar," she says, "When Wilde, while inprison, writes his friend Lord Alfred Douglas totell him that their friendship was base, becauseit wasn't founded on the creation andcontemplation of beauty." As an actor, you'reideally creating and contemplating--and causingthe audience to contemplate--beauty...