MODERN WAR GLOSSARY
I'LL NEED SOME "ID"
TIME LAPSE
BEASTLY LIT
OLD HISTORY
200
'Technically, MOAB stands for "massive ordinance air burst", but it's been nicknamed "the mother of all" these'
bombs
200
'It's the "Spud State"'
Idaho
200
'These stringy parts of a vine, French for "sprout", are searching for a place to attach themselves'
tendrils
200
'1954:
Golding's bad boys battling for basic brute benefits'
Lord of the Flies
200
'In this work Virgil wrote that "a woman is always a fickle, unstable thing"'
the Aeneid
400
'An overwhelming offensive described as this "and awe" is designed to elicit a quick surrender from an enemy'
shock
400
'A proverb tells us that these "hands are the devil's tools"'
idle hands
400
'Just more rush-hour traffic inside this landmark'
Grand Central Station
400
'1930:
Bird is the word for Dashiell Hammett in this mystery'
The Maltese Falcon
400
'Pliny the Elder wrote that the temple built for this huntress was filled with many sculptures by Praxiteles'
Diana (or Artemis)
600
'The Iraq War popularized this adjective for a reporter traveling with battlefield troops'
embedded
600
'In a Dostoyevsky novel, the innocent & naive prince Myshkin is this title character'
The Idiot
600
'New Age therapies abound for healing with this substance forming here; it's also Loretta's sister'
crystal
600
'1988:
Thomas Harris chiller about mute muttons'
The Silence of the Lambs
600
'This Babylonian connected his palace with a temple by building a tunnel under the Euphrates River'
Nebuchadnezzar
800
'From the Latin for "parallel", this kind of "damage" is a military euphemism for civilian deaths'
collateral
800
'A song popular at the turn of the last century said that she was "sweet as apple cider"'
Ida
800
'You're watching a cell go through this process, Greek for "thread"'
mitosis
800
'1961:
A reptillion evening served up by Tennessee Williams'
The Night of the Iguana
800
'On Sept. 2, 31 B.C. the forces of Octavian defeated Mark Antony's troops at the battle of this Greek promontory'
Actium
1000
'From the Greek for "fellow countryman", it's a type of surface-to-air antimissile missile'
Patriot
1000
'This 12-letter word is a habit or characteristic that's peculiar to an individual'
idiosyncrasy
1000
'Here's a nut growing on this type of tree'
an oak
1000
'1841:
Cooper's last of the "Leatherstocking Tales" in which Natty Bumppo goes stag'
The Deerslayer
1000
'In 44 B.C. Caesar was assassinated & fell dead at this foot of the statue of this rival, his son-in-law'
Pompey the Great
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