Word: armored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe. Shortly after the first millennium, the caliphate splintered into tiny Moorish principalities. In the era typified by El Cid, the soldier of fortune who served both Moslems and Christians, chivalry became a warring way of life for Christians. Spanish knights or caballeros, often owning nothing but horse and armor, served to oust the Moors. Monks wore chain mail and were led by bishops wielding battle-axes. The conflict, for Christians, took on the character of a holy crusade, but it was warfare often punctured by periods of peace. Both Moor and Christian often found it more convenient...
After the battle, spectators were invited to remain in their seats for what the program called "an authentic medieval jousting tournament." There were twelve contestants in the tournament. Clad in authentic armor and wielding long wooden lances, they put on the sort of impressive performance achieved only by highly motivated young...
...From Armor to Albatross. Pants suits still meet resistance from males who feel that a masculine prerogative has been suborned. Not that pants cannot be sexy; they are, after all, the costume of the harem. Nor are precedents lacking: one of Joan of Arc's first requests to the Dauphin was permission to don man's armor. Sweden's Queen Christina gloried in pants, as did Novelist George Sand. Brigitte Bardot has been stuffing herself into blue jeans for a decade; and today slacks are the starlet's uniform...
...went on to say that he thinks he's even found Arthur's Camelot. It's in South Cadbury, 100 miles southwest of London, where Sir Mortimer's diggers came up with a hoard of "Arthurian matter" on the site of an old castle. No armor or swords or pennants, mind you, but bits of pottery, some iron knives, and a pin dating back to the 6th century...
...extramarital affair, frequently the office romance. The office romance thrives on contiguity, opportunity, and the fact that love feeds on shared experience. The man looks across the desk at this sweet young thing, and she stirs memories of playful erotic tenderness before he pulled on the heavy, encumbering armor of duty and responsibility. Whatever the wife is doing on her rounds, the husband and his secretary are doing something in common that draws them intensively closer, whether it is planning an ad layout or drafting a new skyscraper. Assuming the girl is about 20 years younger than...