Word: byronic
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...Byron F. Samuels Vallejo, Calif...
...denounced beans, and Horace Greeley, who renounced coffee. Here are the diverse saints and satans of human history: Gandhi and Hitler, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Bormann, Albert Schweitzer and Richard Wagner. In The Vegetable Passion, such celebrities are always less notable for their deeds than for their dinners. "Byron," observes Barkas, "noted poet and lover, practiced a meatless diet sporadically throughout his life, not because of deep ethical or political ideas, but out of vanity-to enable him to keep his weight down and preserve his thin, appealing figure, which was almost as memorable as his strikingly handsome features...
...case involved Nixon's decision to spend no more than $5 billion of the $11 billion that Congress had appropriated, over his veto, for water-pollution control. Although the court stuck strictly to the language of the pollution law and avoided any sorting of federal powers, Justice Byron White's opinion bluntly agreed with the plaintiff, New York City, that "the act does not permit such action" by any President...
Harvard's attack, led by Byron Cook, struck early, and after the opening period of play, the Crimson held a 3-0 advantage, one which it would never relinquish...
...that gave the other writers the idea for this collection) has Bonaparte win at Waterloo, then plunge Europe into decades of troublesome peace. England is unable to disarm because of the danger that he still represents and is ruined by the cost of its huge military establishment. (The ubiquitous Byron, in this version, leads an unsuccessful workers' rebellion against George IV and is executed.) H.A.L. Fisher's Napoleon is a bit more believable. At 46, he escapes to America after losing at Waterloo. Thereupon he blusters his way to a conquest of Peru and finally hatches the notion...