Word: serpentes
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...foreign affairs, John Foster Dulles, joined in solemn discussion of the danger. The U.S., Dulles told the audience, must beware of any tendency to "become panicky and strike out violently." At the same time, he said, the U.S. must not "become fascinated, as by the gaze of a serpent, and become paralyzed into inaction lest the least movement might lead Russia to strike." At the White House the same day, President Truman admitted that his hopes for peace had been shaken in the past year. Then he carefully added: "I still believe we can get world peace. We must have...
Last week from London came a variation on the old theme of man, woman and serpent...
...projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need not end their careers in hopeless frustration...
...theory was that Mary Todd helped Lincoln to success by driving him from the house to the sanctuary of office and politics. Of course, Mary Todd disliked Herndon intensely, and didn't help when he, trying to compliment her on her physical grace, awkwardly likened her to a "serpent...
...including many trippers from Rome), who overfilled every available craft. The sun was setting in a fresh westerly breeze as the boats, hung with bunting, sailed out between the piers. On the leading boat stood the statue of the Virgin, one foot holding down the head of a sea serpent, above the inscription: "Tu es Virgo Maria, portus sahitis, marls stella" (Thou art the Virgin Mary, haven of safety, star of the sea). Catholic fishermen sailed their craft daringly, crashing the gunwales under the foam to prove to the leftist onlookers that with the Madonna in the leading boat nothing...