Word: handmaiden
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...Elizabeth Bathory, a real life 16th century Hungarian tyrant alleged to have killed 650 girls in the belief that bathing in their blood would preserve her youth and beauty. Codrescu pleats the 16th and 20th centuries together address his real concerns, the recurrent patterns of evil and its handmaiden, absolute authority...
...illegitimate class warfare for the Democrats to try to portray the Republican Party as the handmaiden of the financial elite, but not class warfare for the Republicans to tar the Democrats as creatures of a cultural elite? If the Republicans feel free to exploit resentment of the poor, why shouldn't the Democrats feel free to exploit resentment of the rich...
There's pro-consul Marc Anatomy (Thomas I. Parks '96), who travels to Egypt and falls in love with nymphomaniacal Queen Neferenuff (Michael A. Stone '95). There's Nefferenuff's court: tough Leda Uvdapak (Evan M. Sandman '96), pothead handmaiden Isis Melting (Harris Hartman '95), soothsayer Horace Cope (Mark H. Baskin '95), architect Ramses Pointakross (Mark R. Fish...
...there would probably be no end to the political crisis that has paralyzed Pakistan for the past six months. Said a Western diplomat in Islamabad: "Tragically, Bhutto has come nowhere near winning a workable majority. If she can form a government for the second time, she will become a handmaiden of the army and outside forces...
...representing one of the four nucleotides that constitute DNA's code letters: A, T, C and G. And visible through arches in each of the tower sides is a central staircase -- spiral, of course. As an added touch, Watson and several of his guests who had investigated DNA's handmaiden, RNA, in the later 1950s wore their RNA Tie Club ties, each bearing the image of the single-strand molecule...