Word: chariots
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...Elizabeth Taylor showed up in a décolleté creation that momentarily paralyzed athletes and spectators alike. One who is well-equipped to compete with Liz, Siren Gina Lollobrigida, hove into view at the Roman movie premiere of Ben Hur, caused as big an eye goggling as the chariot race on the screen...
...should museums do? Abandon their concern with recent art. . .? In conclusion, may I propose that reluctant 'tastemakers' like me and those like you who exaggerate the power of 'tastemakers' both ponder Aesop's fable of two flies who, perched upon the axletree of a chariot, complacently remarked to each other: 'What a dust we do raise...
...omnes adsunt," indeed! We who teach Latin would do a far greater service to the cause if we channeled pupil interest toward the task of learning Latin rather than into such academic (sic) shenanigans as chariot racing [an event at the Albuquerque convention of Latin students...
...like a set from Ben-Hur. Gorged on deviled eggs in the Student Union, supine banqueters cheered a female snake dancer. Borne on a litter into the football stadium, purple-robed League President Ernest ("The Emperor'') Polansky, 18, gave his pagan blessing to Olympic games, complete with chariot races. In deadly earnest, white-robed candidates for top offices politicked in the ballroom. Taking no chances, they made their convention pitches in English...
...week's end 10,000 marching strikers tied Parisian auto traffic in angry knots. As annoyed autoists irritably leaned on their horns, the strikers chanted, "Des sous, Chariot; des sous, Chariot [Some pennies, Charlie]." The demand seemed modest enough...