Word: saxonizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death penalty has been abolished before in Anglo-Saxon law. William the Conqueror banished it during his reign (1066-87), though he did not object to criminals being mutilated. But a few years later, Henry I (1100-35) permitted the ax and rope to return, and by the 16th century, offenders were also being drowned, drawn and quartered and boiled to death for crimes that ranged from cutting down a tree to stealing property worth more than a shilling. Traitors were hanged, then cut down while still alive, disemboweled so that their innards could be burned before their eyes, then...
...destruction of the Indian meant to them, to America as a nation, and in time, to the land itself. As a result of this political and moral breakdown, year by year, tribe by tribe, lie by lie, the destiny of "this great experiment in democratic government under the Anglo-Saxon race," as expansionist pamphleteers called it, was made manifest by men who killed for Gold and God and proclaimed, "The destiny of the aborigines is written in characters not to be mistaken. The same inscrutable Arbiter that decreed the downfall of Rome has pronounced the doom of extinction upon...
...going to get more and more difficult for the white-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant-male to get into medical schools," James W. Wickenden, associate director of the OG&CP said...
...English what it feels like to have an arm torn off by Beowulf in Hrothgar's meadhall can now relax. It hurts like the devil. "I bawl like a baby. I am slick with blood," cries Grendel in this splendid fiend's-eye view of an Anglo-Saxon epic. "My heart booms with terror." Yet as Novelist John Gardner retells the story, much of Grendel's pain is pure philosophical chagrin...
...fantastic a view of U.S. affairs. But taken whimsically the novel view does help explain other puzzling developments in American life. For example, Golfer Lee Trevino's victories in the U.S., Canadian and British Opens are little more than a Mexican-American revolt against the Anglo-Saxon monopolists who have dominated the game. And the nationwide telephone strike is not a worker-boss conflict at all, but an attempt by harried parents to wrest control of the telephone from the teen-age daughters who have so long monopolized the lines...