Word: waterlooed
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...British painting is a barbarous and insular affair. By and large, the thesis is correct -but there is an important century of exception. Between 1760 and 1860, when Britain swept to the forefront among nations, its painters were as engaged and influential as its soldiers and diplomats were at Waterloo and the Congress of Vienna...
...West Indies in 1800, Commander Hornblower who intercepted the French troops that Napoleon tried to sneak into Ireland in 1804, Commodore Hornblower who inspired Sweden to join the war and gave Czar Alexander the courage to stand up and fight in 1812. And when the end finally came at Waterloo, there was Lord Hornblower, leading a band of guerrillas that tied up nine battalions of Napoleon's troops. Not until now, however, did anyone guess that it was young Captain Hornblower who was responsible for sinking Napoleon's fleet at Trafalgar...
Boston University's Waterloo came at the Crimson's last line of defense--safeteymen Tom Wynne and John Tyson. Wynne foiled the Terriors' aerial blitz with three interceptions, tying a Harvard record. Tyson stalled the B.U. ground attack with a team-leading nine tackles and added a fourth interception...
...order was issued after the five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa, were lost aboard the torpedoed light cruiser U.S.S. Juneau. By coincidence, Captain Wes Gebert, who presided at John's induction, was on a nearby ship and saw the Juneau go down...
...brought the antagonists near the brink but always just a step short. Then, in 1962, Khrushchev made his biggest blunder by putting Soviet missiles into Cuba. It was then, argues Halle, that the cold war reached its hottest point. Khrushchev's backdown was the Waterloo...