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aegis
(en)
(noun, Greek mythology) protective mantle of Zeus given to Athena
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the party gave its hurried and flustered blessing to a march on the Tauride Palace, in an effort to spread its aegis over a fait accompli
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the party gave its hurried and flustered blessing to a march on the Tauride Palace, in an effort to spread its aegis over a fait accompli
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gallimaufry
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(noun) hodgepodge; a confused jumble or medley of things
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As they approached, so too at the Neva’s mouth did a naval gallimaufry. A mad patchwork flotilla.
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As they approached, so too at the Neva’s mouth did a naval gallimaufry. A mad patchwork flotilla.
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The mood grew ugly. Chernov shrank precariously back as suspicious men and women surrounding him jostled closer to where he balanced. A big worker pushed his way through and came up close and shook his fist in Chernov’s face.
‘Take power, you son of a bitch,’ he bellowed, in one of most famous phrases of 1917, ‘when it’s given to you!
The mood grew ugly. Chernov shrank precariously back as suspicious men and women surrounding him jostled closer to where he balanced. A big worker pushed his way through and came up close and shook his fist in Chernov’s face.
‘Take power, you son of a bitch,’ he bellowed, in one of most famous phrases of 1917, ‘when it’s given to you!