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Along those lines, an alternative proposed meaning is that "the dogs of war" refers figuratively to the wild pack of soldiers "let slip" by war's breakdown of civilized behavior and/or their commanders' orders to wreak "havoc", i.e., rape, pillage, and plunder. [8] [9] [unreliable source] [unreliable source]
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the word pogrom entered English from Yiddish which borrowed it from Russian.The OED gives two meanings for the word: [6] In Russia, Poland, and some other East European countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: an organized massacre aimed at the destruction or annihilation of a body or class of people, esp. one conducted against ...
Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war" is a quotation from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 1). The phrase "cry havoc" also appears in two other Shakespeare plays, Coriolanus (Act 3, Scene 1) and King John (Act 2, Scene 1). Cry havoc may refer to: Cry 'Havoc', a 1943 war drama; Cry Havoc (1981 board game)
Oct. 27—For Jody Hagemann, the senior director of sales engineering for the Northeast Division of Comcast Business, issues of cybersecurity and, specifically, of phishing are of the utmost concern.
A massive dockworker strike at seaports on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts is expected to wreak havoc on global supply chains and the economy, with American consumers likely to notice shortages of ...
Andrew Iverson, now head of the state Republican Party, told a staffer to "wreak havoc" by having Trump supporters inundate a get-out-the-vote group.
The military order Havoc! was a signal given to the English military forces in the Middle Ages to direct the soldiery (in Shakespeare's parlance 'the dogs of war') to pillage and chaos. Origin The Black Book of the Admiralty of 1385 is a collection of laws, in French and Latin, relating to the English Navy.
Airline passengers should prepare for possible impacts to their flights Wednesday as a dynamic combination of weather could lead to delays or – if you are traveling in the right direction – an ...