aquiline,clench, buff, pacifist, anarchist, redcoats, minutemen

Charlton Heston, America's prophet, died on April 5th, aged 84

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SOME said it was the nose: high, majestic, aquiline, magnificently broken in a high-school football game. Some said it was the jaw, rugged as Mount Rushmore and packed almost too full of white, clenched teeth. Or the eyes, blue and far-seeing, as if they measured out panoramas of Western mountain and desert. The body matched: tall, muscled, buffed, bronzed. In Charlton Heston, a whole American landscape seemed to have heaved itself into human shape, stretched out its arm, and received from God the tablets of the Law:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

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Tensions were high on this date in 1775, as British troops approached Lexington, MA. The conflict between Britain and its American colonies was intensifying, and the redcoats were en route to seize arms purportedly stockpiled in nearby Concord. Some 70 minutemen waited on the green in Lexington, and as the British came near, a shot was fired. It is still not clear who fired that first shot heard round the world, but it is called the shot that began the American Revolution. The nervous redcoats, believing themselves under attack, immediately fired back, killing eight of the colonists. By the time they had pushed on to Concord, the arms had been removed and approximately 300 militiamen were there to meet them. The British were forced to retreat to Boston. In the end, some 270 British and 95 Americans were killed that day in what became known as the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

In 1936, despite her pacifism, she fought in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side. She identified herself as an anarchist^[7] and joined the Sébastien Faure Century, the French-speaking section of the anarchist militia.

pacifism noun [U]
the belief that war is wrong, and therefore that to fight in a war is wrong

pacifist
noun [C]
someone who believes in pacifism:
The pacifist movement is gaining increasing support among young people.



The noun REDCOAT has one meaning:
Meaning #1: British soldier; so-called because of his red coat, esp. during the Revolutionary War
Synonym: lobsterback



Minutemen were members of teams of select men from the American colonial militia during the American Revolutionary War.

aquiline

(ăk'wə-līn', -lĭn)
Bernice was embarrassed by her aquiline nose.
adj.

1. Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an eagle.
2. Curved or hooked like an eagle's beak: an aquiline nose.

[Latin aquilīnus, from aquila, eagle.]

aquilinity aq'ui·lin'i·ty (-lĭn'ĭtē) n.

clench

(klĕnch)
tr.v., clenched, clench·ing, clench·es.

1. To close tightly: clench one's teeth; clenched my fists in anger.
2. To grasp or grip tightly: clenched the steering wheel.
3. To clinch (a bolt, for example).
4. Nautical. To fasten with a clinch.

n.

1. A tight grip or grasp.
2. Something, such as a mechanical device, that clenches or holds fast.
3. Nautical. See clinch (sense 4).

[Middle English clenchen, from Old English beclencan.]

buff (MAKE SHINE) Show phonetics
verb [T]
to rub an object made of metal, wood or leather in order to make it shine, using a soft, dry cloth