Word: sword
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...Cassandra, a prophetess who is to be raped by Agamemnon, Tess Mullen ’04 was eerily mad, whirling blindly while brandishing a sword and promising to kill her “husband”. Meneleus, performed by Richard J. Powell ’04, was dressed somewhere between a trailer park inhabitant, Egyptian, and rapper. Helen of Troy, was portrayed by Leah R. Lussier ’07 as a pouty sexpot accustomed to using her wiles...
Everyone who follows hockey knows what this was about from the start. The Canucks saw Moore as an unknown rookie who took out their top scorer and, in a tacit citation of the NHL’s practice of governance-by-sword, thought he deserved...
...David Jakus and Julian Rose in saber and epee, respectively—won at least two of his three bouts, with Woodhouse and Jakus going undefeated. With eight points already on the board, Harvard (7-4) needed just six total points from its second and third-best with each sword...
...faithful. Under pressure to explain, he declared during his announcement speech, "I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations." Threaten? Even at the time, it was clear the resolution was more than an invitation to rattle a sword. "Everyone knew what was going on," says a senior Democratic Senate aide. "People understood we were giving the President the authority to do what he needed to do. You could see anything you wanted to in the resolution. But the lesson the Democrats learned from 1991 was that...
...director of engineering, explained that the new digital technology is a double-edged sword. Since it transmits audio more accurately, it accentuates both intended sounds, such as a host's voice, and unwanted background noise, like papers being shuffled...