Word: cromwellian
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...rich, landowner father had no use for poetry, and wanted his son to train for the law. Ovid obediently did, but he was far fonder of Rome's artist colony and social whirl. His love lyrics were popular with all but the Emperor Augustus, a dour Cromwellian sort, who found Ovid's lively spirit immoral and subversive. In A.D. 8, he banished the poet to lifelong exile in a Black Sea village, but not before Ovid had capped his fame with a masterpiece which never saw more than first-draft form, the Metamorphoses, or the Stories of Changing...
...whose unstatesmanlike didos made a circus of municipal affairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. McNair once dismissed all violators of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act ("They had committed no crime," he said, "except competing in the rotten liquor business with Governor Pinchot"), failed in a Cromwellian move to dissolve a newly elected city council, resigned in a huff when the council balked at confirming his appointees...
...fierce battle that was joined when Allied troops hit the beach, there was also the renewal of a historic personal conflict. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Cromwellian conqueror of North Africa, was in command of all the Allied ground forces. Across from him was the canny, brilliant German field marshal he had met and beaten in North Africa. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the "Old Fox," was readying his forces (under Germany's Supreme Commander, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt) to strike back again...
...brilliant, pipe-smoking deputy, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, on airmen like Britain's Leigh-Mallory and the U.S.'s "Tooey" Spaatz, on seamen like Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. And a special weight pressed on two of their top subordinates: Cromwellian General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, and Lincolnesque Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, A.U.S...
...Cromwellian, unrhetorical General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery characteristically addressed his troops in England...