Word: xenophon
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Three books, so the story goes, were on the desk of TIME'S editor when TIME'S first issue went to press - the Bible, Xenophon's Anabasis, and the Iliad...
When TIME began in 1923 the library contained just three books-the Bible, Xenophon's Anabasis, and the Iliad. The index was a set of scrapbooks into which a red-headed office boy pasted TIME's news stories. And the "morgue" was simply a batch of clippings the editor carried in his pocket when he went to the printers each week to correct the final proofs...
...boiled python, boiled grass. When they returned to the Indian frontier they were ravenous. Brigadier Wingate ate as much as his men, was asked by a solicitous general if he was not eating too heavily. Said he: "I find it quite impossible to overeat. During the march I read Xenophon and Plato's dialogues with Socrates. Now I find that moderation has become my guiding thought-wonderfully soothing...
...Xenophon's 10,000 Greeks retreated through hostile territory for 1,500 miles from the Tigris, but they were not chased; Charles X of Sweden retreated 1,000 miles from Yaroslav to Warsaw, sometimes chased; Napoleon was haphazardly chased 500 miles from Moscow; Chief Joseph and 600 Nez Percé Indians were chased by the U.S. Army 1,300 miles from the Wallowa Valley in Oregon to the Canadian border, but 600 Indians could scarcely be called an army...
...flight compared with the weary, eight-month-long, 1,500-mile retreat of the "Ten Thousand Greeks" under Xenophon in 401 B.C.; the 1,000-mile retreat of Charles X of Sweden from Yaroslavl to Warsaw in 1656. Rommel had fought a moderately successful rear-guard action, covering his trail with anti-tank guns and mortars. He had also been lucky. Cyrenaica's rainy season had slowed Montgomery's pursuit...