📰 Uncategorised 08 Jul 2016

THE WORLD OF WORDS...

1) Anand's JUGGERNAUT crushes Adams. 2) The Nazi legions crashed into Poland, now helpless and caught been fires. So was set in ugly motion a JUGGERNAUT that, before it finally ruled to a stop, cost the world at least 20...

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1) Anand's JUGGERNAUT crushes Adams.

2) The Nazi legions crashed into Poland, now helpless and caught been fires. So was set in ugly motion a JUGGERNAUT that, before it finally ruled to a stop, cost the world at least 20 million lives.

The word in caps is taken from JAGANNATH, "Lord of the world,"one of our leading gods of the Hindus, a Hindi word that goes back to Sanskrit. Because of a story that frantic devotees allowed themselves to be crushed under the huge chariot wheels in a religious procession, the word JUGGERNAUT has come to mean an irresistible, ruthless force that destroys everything in its path, an engine or machine of destruction.

The two examples above prove it, though differently, one, figuratively, in the game of the battle of wits, and the other, literally, on the battlefield.