Word: lording
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...ruffled more feathers than most, though Baroness Morris says her frustration was tempered with gratitude: "You're thinking, 'Thank God he runs the economy so well so we have this money to spend.'" Others have proved less forgiving. Former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke branded Brown a "control freak," while Lord Turnbull, a top civil servant, remarked of his management style at the Treasury: "You cannot help but admire the sheer Stalinist ruthlessness of it all." Within eight months of Blair's first victory, a source from within 10 Downing Street famously skewered Brown by diagnosing him as "psychologically flawed...
Instead, we choose to deify those men that excel at the quintessential American pastime—men who were not born into privilege, who are not trying to lord over us with their power. Men who have channeled years of hard work and discipline into the ability to be dominant in a sport we loved to play as children. This also reflects our city’s patriotic origins. As we rebelled against the aristocratic British imperial system in favor of a more egalitarian government years ago, so too do we rally around a rag-tag band of brothers that...
...Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize award ceremony early to put his 10-month-old daughter to bed. But the quality of the dessert served at the catered Eliot House event persuaded him to stay, and it was fortunate that he did: Liu, along with Professor of History Daniel Lord Smail, was awarded the senior faculty award for excellence in teaching. The Levenson Prize is awarded each year by the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) of the Undergraduate Council to “recognize especially skilled and dedicated teachers of undergraduate courses and sections,” according to the UC?...
...found myself saying, “God! I wish this is the way I could talk normally.” THC: You’ve talked about the experience of working with the other members of the cast. What are some highlights? LB: I work a lot with Lord Capulet. My father [John Greene] and the nurse [Dipika Guha] are both not Harvard students. Dipika is a special student and John is just in the area and does a lot of improv, and they’re both so great. It seems like this is really bringing...
...Millamant (Olga Zhulina ’09), whose aunt is Lady Wishfort (Alison H. Rich ’09). Wishfort has to be married before she will give her blessing (and her fortune) to the couple, so Mirabell decides to have an already-married servant pretend to be a lord and court...