Word: pandora
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...second factor was the unpopularity of Republican Governor John Fine's administration and a Pandora's box of contributing local issues. Added to this, the Republicans ran a poor campaign with an unfortunate candidate. Lieutenant Governor Lloyd Wood, a cigar-chomping politician. Wood had to carry all of the liabilities and secured none of the assets of the Republican organization's 100-year-old reputation. The evil that political machines do lives long after their effectiveness is gone...
...weekend, the committee members had time to mull over Senator McClellan's motion. It soon became apparent that most of them did not quite understand what the motion meant. Did it mean that -as McCarthy chortled to newsmen-Joe had been handed the Army key to Pandora's box and would be allowed to dredge up from it all conversations relating, however remotely, to the Army's handling of Communists? Did not Joe's "chronological order" play take the future sequence of the hearings right out of the committee's hands? Did the motion assure...
...would do anything for Pandora, that Witch of Esperanto, that dare-all and do-all of Las Dos Tortugas. A rich playboy killed himself for her. A famous bullfighter killed someone else, or tried to, for her. But these mere men were...
Only the flying Dutchman, whom fate told her was waiting on that strange yacht in the cove, was for Pandora, "the darling of the gods." He'd been alive and roaming the seven seas with a ghost crew for seven times seven years. So she stripped and swam out to his yacht. And a tidal wave swept over the yacht and killed Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, which, our narrator assured us, was a good thing. Our narrator was a man of consumate wisdom, a Greek scholar and bearded, and his word on affairs of this sort cannot be questioned...
...Pandora and Flying Dutchman legends are merely fantasies. When interwoven, somewhat crudely, yet credibly, with a collection of themes like Greek ideas of tragedy, and masochist thoughts of self torture and sadism, they make a fantastic and thoroughly fascinating picture...