Word: trojans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet Union had not forced Czechoslovakia, which was the only democracy east of Switzerland before the Nazi invasion, into the Soviet orbit in 1948, the USSR would probably exist to this day. The Czechs, famous for their strong democratic traditions and cynical attitude towards authority, were the Trojan Horse of the Soviet empire...
...said she had no knowledge that Lott actually said those words. Still Lott is against legislation by body parts, not wanting Clinton to achieve by salami slice what he couldn't with the health-care bill. Lott named his meeting to fight the piecemeal bills "Clinton Care Returns: The Trojan Horse Strategy...
...contends that just as the extraordinary demands of warfare can erode the character of good men, resulting in phenomenon like military atrocities, cops who work in increasingly war-like urban environments can find themselves similarly destroyed by their difficult task. Conlon writes, "Whether engaged in combat on the Trojan plain or in the jungles of Vietnam or on the streets of Brooklyn, those who traffic in violence, regardless of the justice of their cause, risk their hearts and minds as much as their lives...
Rodrigo Baca, a junior majoring in economics, and Dennis Sanchez, a professor at East Los Angeles College, said they were talking with four other USC students Tuesday afternoon at Tommy Trojan when three DPS officers approached them and asked if they were members of the Local 11 Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union...
...Odyssey (Viking). In thrilling fashion, Robert Fagles' verse translation retells an epic tale 2,700 years old that some would argue is the mother of all novels. In recounting Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War, Fagles finds a contemporary English style that beckons to the ear as well as the eye. Rewardingly for an age so often rendered in rap and heavy metal, he makes Homer sing...