Word: maximus
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...office that has often been near destruction, often corrupt, often hated. Nevertheless, Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa! shouted the crowds in Rome. They were cheering not only the office, not only a faith, not only the past in which they glory. They were cheering not only the Pontifex Maximus as they have almost always cheered him, but a man. For Eugenio Pacelli, for the past 15 years known as Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, is a new kind of Pope...
...court lolls midst pleasures and palaces. Massed legions march in triumph through crowd-choked avenues. Mobs flee the burning city and storm Nero's palace. Christian martyrs fall to a pack of lions, burn by the score at rows of stakes in the arena of the Circus Maximus. One of them, Ursus...
...major and minor"; Actress Denise (Pardon Our French) Parcel, "one of the sexiest figures ever to grace our shores, but she's still ten pounds too sexy"; Tallulah Bankhead, "too much around the rectus abdominis region"; Anne (Kiss Me, Kate) Jeffreys, "a reduction in the gluteus muscles, both maximus and medius, is indicated...
...news was the civil war raging between Pompey and Caesar. There was a sharp cartoon about Cicero, whose indecision in the crisis was lampooned in a caption, "Otium Cum Dignitate" (inaction with dignity). There had been strange doings at the Circus Maximus: two gladiators got tangled up with the umpires and decapitated one of them. The weather forecast: "Frigidus." Such was the state of the world last week as reported in Britain's only Latin newspaper, Acta Diurna (Daily Register...
...moas found ranged from the 12-ft.-tall Dinornis maximus down to the ostrich-sized Euryapteryx. Big & little, they apparently wandered into the swamp while feeding. Their enormous feet were fine defensive weapons (the far smaller South American rheas have been known to kick a mule to death), but were no good for bogtrotting. As they sank, the birds kicked and struggled; skeletons have been found with one leg raised as though in a last, despairing kick...