Word: memento
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...Temple of Jupiter. Toga-clad senators and the families of prominent patricians followed ahead of conquering ranks of legionaries. Bulls were sacrificed, laurel wreaths donned. Chariots bore the plundered loot of subjugated tribes, and captured barbarians were yanked along in chains. Some of the slaves had instructions to mutter "Memento mori" (Remember you are mortal) to their captors - an ironic note in a propaganda play designed to bind the Roman public to its leaders...
...didn't wash that sweatshirt, because when you've helped one set of alien robots defeat another, you need a memento. But he shakes it out while preparing to leave for Princeton, unintentionally rebooting the whole conflict. The shard infuses him with great genius - the Cube being the source of all alien-robot knowledge - making him, once again, the Decepticons' main quarry. And once again, it takes director Michael Bay 144 minutes and a tremendous amount of firepower and heaving bosoms to re-vanquish the Decepticons. Even then, it still seems highly likely that the worst of them, a black...
...fact, the beef tongue on the menu at Hungry Mother is a family memento, according to Maiden’s cousin, Jill Howard, who added that, when he was young, Maiden was “the pickiest eater...
...always been there.”“I wish I didn’t have to move.”“You’ll always have your memories of here. That’s what helped me move when I was younger. I had mementos of where I used to live. I collected rocks and stuff. I still have them.”“I don’t have any mementos of here.”“You should get some.”We continued to walk...
...Cobbe portrait is one of the paintings that came to the family via the earl, though Wells believes the evidence is strong that it is. But if so, that inevitably invites speculation that the earl might have commissioned it. Could it even have been a keepsake for himself, a memento of his loving - maybe very loving - admirer...