“The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.” — GENGHIS KHAN
Boy, talk about a man who knew what he wanted out of life. He also knew how to get it: after the tribal leader known as Temujen was crowned in A.D. 1206 as the Mongols' Genghis Khan — “emperor of all emperors” — he waged nearly continuous wars of conquest against his neighbors. By his death in 1227, Genghis Khan ruled most of the lands between the Sea of Japan and the Caspian Sea, an empire that encompassed two-thirds of the known world and far eclipsed the celebrated realms of Alexander the Great. To those who were overrun by the Khan's mounted hordes — and to the victims' modern descendants — the Mongols were a barbaric people who swept out of the unknown reaches of the Asian steppe, a warmongering race whose only talents were for rape, murder and pillage.
“The Khan Collection” (1994-09-26) By Michael D Lemonick Et Al. Time Mag. Source
He [Blaise Pascal] saw no room for mystery-mongering in matters of science and mathematics.
?
monger = To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; often used chiefly of discreditable traffic.
heartland
The Usenet newsgroups are, in their way, the perfect antidote to modern mass media. Rather than catering to the lowest common denominator with programming packaged by a few people in New York, Atlanta and Hollywood and broadcast to the masses in the heartland, the newsgroups allow news, commentary and humor to bubble up from the grass roots. They represent narrowcasting in the extreme: content created by consumers for consumers. While cable-TV executives still dream of hundreds of channels, Usenet already has thousands. The network is so fragmented, in fact, that some fear it will ultimately serve to further divide a society already splintered by race, politics and sexual prejudice. That would be an ironic fate for a system designed to enhance communications.
“WELCOME TO CYBERSPACE; What is it? Where is it? When can we go?” By Philip Elmer-Dewitt. TIME Domestic SPECIAL ISSUE, Spring 1995 Volume 145, No. 12 Source
narrowcasting = Alternative to broadcasting wherein advertising messages are presented to relatively limited audiences by means of direct mail, local cable television, specialty publications, or other specifically targeted media. Narrowcasting
heartland = the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture.
daredevil
Broken Arrow, a bomb-ticking chase movie about a daredevil pilot (Travolta) who steals two nuclear weapons, shows how easily the two cinemas can coexist. It flies at the speed of Macho 2 while allowing Woo to unpack his full cinematic arsenal: overhead shots, plenty of steamy atmosphere (Travolta smokes a lot), Cuisinart editing of the action scenes, slow motion to prolong the jitters and, for dialogue scenes that other directors would stand flatfooted and watch, lithe little tracking shots. If film school were fun, Woo would be the nutty professor.
jitters = extreme nervousness.
lithe = gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease.
“GO WEST, HONG KONG” (1996-02-26) By Richard Corliss. Time Mag. Source
daredevil = a reckless impetuous irresponsible person.
molehill = a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing. molehill
beachhead
Older (age 15 and up), more hard-core gamers will want that Xbox. The machine is Microsoft's beachhead in the console wars, and I predict it will be a big success, even though it costs 50% more.
“The Box Meets The Cube” (2001-11-19) By Josh Quittner. Time Mag. Source
Beachhead is illustrated in the opening scene of the movie Saving Private Ryan.
beachhead = a line of attack on the beach with the goal to advance inland. Beachhead
hogwash
I had hoped to find a responsible article, instead I found hogwash.
?
brinkmanship
US and USSR played brinkmanship during the cold war.
Xah Lee
brinkmanship = the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster.
taskmaster
...INTPs do not always enjoy much popularity, for they can be hard taskmasters.
byline
...a cyberpunk journalist who writes under the byline St. Jude,...
potboiler
“It doesn't ring true,” insisted Jackie Collins, author of The Bitch, The Stud, and other potboilers.
outflank
the guy was outflanked by two cops.
stranglehold
...hope PowerPC would break the stranglehold that Intel has on the production of chips...
