Word: hera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the years, observers say, Wilson beganto chafe under Sheerr's intense direction. In thespring of 1997, Wilson gave a speech in which sheimplied that Radcliffe might work with Harvard butonly on Radcliffe's terms. She did not consultSheerr before giving the speech, which earned hera standing ovation from the largely alumnaeaudience. The chairman was infuriated...
...billion trying, you might expect better than a 0-5 success rate. The military today recorded the fifth consecutive miss in testing of the costly THAAD anti-missile system. A booster rocket failure resulted in the Lockheed-built Theater High Altitude Area Defense missile's failing to intercept a Hera test missile...
...feats as a way of atonement. There's a lesson here, maybe, about the disproportion between human ability--mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra-buff teenage superstar who adores "Meg" and addresses the Great Goddess Hera as "Mom." Maybe Disney didn't realize that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for impieties far milder than that. What next? Medea, who kills her own sons after Jason jilts her, as a perky homecoming queen who struggles with low self-esteem...
...heave. But now, in recognition of the fact that red-blooded spring breakers need a more stand-up form of entertainment, the U.S. military plans to start test-launching ballistic missiles from our fabled ecosystem. On your next vacation visit, you'll be able to watch 12-ton Hera rockets blast out of the wetlands and get shot down in a blaze of glory by Patriot-type missiles launched from Eglin Air Force Base, about 700 miles away. Our new slogan is "See the Lower Keys before they're debris...
...Lake Wobegon monologues established him as the funniest American writer still open for business, leaves off direct argument just as women readers are taking a deep breath and checking their 3-by-5 note cards, and craftily retreats to parable. Zeus, lolling at a seaside cafe, is confronted by Hera's lawyer, who threatens litigation. The father of the gods turns the twit into vinaigrette dressing, pours the stuff over salad, then tells a waiter the greens are wilted and should be fed to pigs. "And bring me a beautiful young woman, passionate but compliant, with small, ripe breasts." Alas...