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A.Word.A.Day--dolor dolor (DO-luhr), also dolour, noun Sorrow; grief. [From Middle English dolour, from Old French, from Latin dolor (pain), from dolere (to feel pain). A related word is dol, the unit of pain.] "Leads her to a lowly room. Which she makes a chapel of. Where she genuflects to love. All the prayerbooks in her eyes Open soft as sacrifice Or the dolour of a dove. Tender candles ray by ray Warm and gratify the gray." From the poem "The Anniad"; Book: Annie Allen, 1949. This week's theme: Words from the Works of Gwendolyn Brooks. X-Bonus The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. -M. Grundler

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