Word: cerberus
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Russia is a Cerberus that grows more than 3,000,000 heads a year, many of them hungry for truth. The Soviet leaders appease this appetite with huge helpings of technological and scientific fact, but when it comes to political truth, they either stonily ignore the demand or cynically toss a sop to Cerberus...
...grotesque parody of that old literary device, the descent into hell, Amsel leads Matern and his black dog through his guilt factory. The black dog, who appears to embody both the bestial and the sturdily virtuous elements of the German nature, remains in Amsel's underworld as a Cerberus. But Matern is allowed to return to the surface and soap himself clean in what could be a mockery of the Jewish rites of forgiveness and absolution...
...famed, spirited, but excessively proper translation of British Classicist Gilbert Murray, Aeacus. judge of the dead, mistakes the wine god Dionysus for Heracles, who has stolen Cerberus, the watchdog of Hades...
...harried our dog, Cerberus, choked...
...rave awa oor collie Cerberus...