Word: hydra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rosary clicker is as yet a primitive machine which must be worked by hand; the possibilities of electrifying its action, amplifying the clicks, inserting Hydra-Matic shift between the decades and possibly embellishing it with a cigar lighter modeled into the image of a favorite saint, these open wide if appalling vistas to the religious gadgeteer . . . The wedding of piety and jewelry . . . with St. Christopher money clips, St. Anthony key chains, Miraculous Medal bracelets, etc., may have something to recommend it, but we fail to see what...
...short name for isonicotinic acid hydra-zide (TIME, March...
...church's orthodoxy. From Bethlehem he thundered against the hairsplitting heresies of the time with the mordancy of a theological Leo Durocher. When Jerome's onetime friend Rufinus died, after a long theological quarrel with him, the saint wrote: "Now that the scorpion lies buried . . . and the hydra with its numerous heads has ceased its hissing against us, and time is given for other things than answering the iniquities of heretics . . . I will tackle the Prophet Ezekiel...
Myth has it that Hercules once fought an unspeakably fearsome creature named Hydra, who had the disconcerting ability to sprout two-heads for every one he lost. Old stuff, you may say, but for all its antiquity it is often reenacted even in these unheroic days...
...clearest proof of inflation's hydra like quality has appeared during the last few months. When the steel dispute rolled into Washington, anyone could see that a dozen knotty issues would roll in with it, all tangled up like the parts of some inscrutable hieroglyph. That no one seems able to disentangle these issues and set them right is not all the fault of Truman's sword-play, for one of inflation's perversities, it seems, is to grow more impregnable with every attack...