Word: hectoring
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...clatter of tin swords on tin shields as Trojan and Greek struggled on the plain and seashore of Troy. The Trojans lost the war, but they won what few acting honors were available: Frederick Rolf displayed both majesty and grief as King Priam, while Michael Higgins' doomed Hector seemed far more a man and soldier than his rival, Achilles...
...Laborite M.P. Hector McNeil thought that "if Jesus came back, He would see much to admire and much that would distress Him, and, on balance. I humbly suspect more to applaud than to condemn. For man improves. Compassion . . . has grown more lively in our country . . . the young-and no less the hungry, the enfeebled and the aged-have become a high charge on our national effort...
...know what Christmas and Easter mean, who have never heard of the star of Bethlehem or the angel at the door of the tomb ... All I urge is that [the child] should hear them treated frankly as legends . . . There was a real Trojan War and Hector and Achilles may well have been real people, but we don't now believe Achilles was the son of sea nymphs. Similarly, there was a real Jesus Christ who . . . was crucified. But we don't now believe that he was the son of God and a virgin or that he rose from...
...HECTOR CHEVIGNY...
...Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo, Ambassador Extraordinary, Benefactor, etc., etc.-and for the past 24 years its Dictator. It was electrifying news. Anyone named Vice President would obviously be under grooming to take over the presidency, currently held by the Benefactor's brother and puppet, Hector Trujillo. Approving letters, marveling at the "brilliant suggestion of the Benefactor," began to appear, day after day, in the paper...