Word: macedon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only say, ask yourself who gains most. Olympias gains everything, because this match will lose her everything, if the King outlives it. Demosthenes gains the blood of the man he hates worse than death; the Athenians gain a civil war in Macedon, if we play our part, with the kingship in doubt, or passed to a boy they make light of, the more so since he's in disfavor. Darius, whose gold you want to keep even if it hangs you, gains even more...
...Baden-Powell's own gift for projecting a heroic image and partly to the ineffectual tactics of Boer General Cronje, Baden-Powell was made the youngest major general in the British army. His military prowess was acclaimed in terms that would have been extravagant for Alexander of Macedon. He retired in 1910 after an otherwise uneventful military career. But no matter, he made a swell founder of the Boy Scouts...
...prove it, he spent long nights wearing a black eyeshade, seated behind a gallimaufry of reports, books and papers, studying and slicing. He especially delighted in heckling the military. In an annual spring ritual, he would arise with flailing arms to castigate the Pentagon. Starting with Philip of Macedon's tactics, he would trace the history of warfare through Henry V down to the first and second World Wars. Military men, he protested, were not susceptible to change-especially changes that might save money. "We had a deuce of a time getting them to give up the cavalry...
...most licentious language, however, came from Rabelais. In translation, the Frenchman used no less than 66 verbs to describe what Diogenes did to his tub while his fellow Corinthians were preparing to defend their city against Phillip of Macedon. Not only did Diogenes frisk it, jumble it, shuffle it, and huddle it, but he towled it, bewrayed it and unbunged it as well. All this action (set to music by Elliot Carter) was described with great enthusiasm by a four-part men's chorus while the 'Cliffies sat on the sidelines. In obedience to the score, the men chanted much...