Word: tempora
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...this point the main course arrived, a plate heaped high with whole-wheat noodles, a vegetable tempora, fried lily-root, seaweed, and brown rice...
Muscle-Bound Mind. The aroused astronomer carried his war to the BBC last week, got vigorous bene and male from the press. The Daily Telegraph cried O tempora, O Lyttleton: "There could be no worse argument in favor of this jejune and illiberal measure than that Latin is a dead language and should therefore remain dead . . . The truth is that the study of Latin is a training for the muscles of the mind." But the Daily Mirror's Cassandra argued that Latin had muscle-bound his mind. He began by declining mensa (table), then wrote: "This nonsense I have...
...former--O may the gods forbid that the onrushing Dark Ages have so engulfed even this university--if the former, then we can only turn for comfort to the shining lessons of the great stoic, "O tempora, O mores!" If the latter--remembering that this outrage occurs day after day and at reduced rates--we must join the great Orator in his righteous outburst of indignation and exclaim, "Quousque tandem, Catilina, abutere patientia nostra...
...police description looks rather spiteful. Perhaps the product of some minor minion. Almost invites retaliation. What ingratitude! . . . O tempora, o mores! . . . Back in 1920, the most befitting legend over headauarters would have been "POLICE HEADQUARTERS, a branch of the Securities Exchange Co." Witness, the police detail assigned by the 'department to help me handle the crowd of investors...
...alcoholics and that the conduct of alumni was no affair of the President of Yale, Dr. Angell had been charged by a fanatical Pennsylvania alumnus with conniving at a "conspiracy in the class of '95 to violate the Eighteenth Amendment and flout the Constitution." "O! tempora," commented a Yale alumnus who had studied Latin, "Oh ! Mory...