43 Rhymes For MOLOCHS

• thoroughbred horses (collectively)

• the cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten

• Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916)

• a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research

• a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree

• any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective

• a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

• merchandise that is shoddy or inferior

• a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air

• game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

• European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison

• large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle

• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

• (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

• a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages

• a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)

• Scottish word for a lake

• martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes

• a stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers

• A small, unassuming automobile.

• short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

• an antacid

• a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Vioxx) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract; voluntarily withdrawn from the market in 2004

• a terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world; enlisted and transported thousands of men to Afghanistan to fight the Russians; a split in the group led bin Laden and the extremist faction of MAK to form al-Qaeda

• United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935)