Word: armored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maryland even the major lacrosse teams can't stand more than two such games a week. I would suggest a less arduous program for next year and I certainly hope in the meanwhile, that one of your boys is not seriously injured. G. Maxwell Armor...
When Belisarius and the Eunuch Narses conquered Italy for Justinian in 540, they re-established Ravenna as the Western capital of the Byzantine empire. Justinian and Theodora, his empress, ordered it suitably adorned. The rendering of Christ in armor for the Archbishop's Chapel, a rare phenomenon in art, may reflect the warlike nature of the Byzantines, who held the view that Christianity could and should be spread by the sword. But the Ravenna Christ looks more loving than awesome. A beardless youth, He lightly treads the lion and the serpent while presenting His eternal promise...
...Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in the public schools puts a strong searchlight on a chink in the moral armor of Southern liberalism. Southern liberals have thought it possible to define democracy and human equality as compatible with an enforced dual social structure. These men were willing gradually to give the Negro all that was right and just-but only within the conceptual framework of two parallel societies, one black, the other white. When the concept of segregation itself was challenged, the Southern liberals drew back in alarm. Who is a Southern liberal? The well-known names of Harry...
...play, however, partly from possessing no deeper values, partly from having its outcome foreordained, in time starts dragging its feet. A third stanza of Have a Rendezvous with Death seems excessive particularly as the chink in the final marriage's armor against fate is pretty easy to spot. For a lady who keeps late-dating doom, two earlier-in-the-evening admirers are quite enough...
With Stalin's backing, Zhukov went to Germany in the 19203 to attend lecture courses on armor. He was later to clash with his instructors on the civil war battlefields of Spain...