Word: armored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trees," but it is a fair sample. It is larded with arcane phrases like "tip him a settler" (knock him out), epithets like "nipcheese" (a parsimonious person), verbs like "fadge" (to make sense). Male characters do not dress; they are accoutered, like Achilles, in the armor prescribed by Beau Brummel, who, as every Heyer reader knows, not only taught Englishmen to wash, wear clean linen and conservatively cut clothes, but invented a boot polish with a special magic ingredient-vintage champagne. Its plot is frothy and prolix. Charles Fancot, the second son of now-defunct Lord Denville, comes home...
King: Some of you have knives, and I ask you to put them up. Some of you may have arms, and I ask you to put them up. Get the weapon of nonviolence, the breastplate of righteousness, the armor of truth, and just keep marching...
...from many countries have said much, most of it hackneyed, on first seeing the Berlin Wall. Author John Steinbeck, 61, ending a two-month tour behind the Iron Curtain, chose his words carefully: "One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armor is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction...
...Chinese overlords; one of their female com manders gave birth to a child on the battlefield, then strapping her infant on her back and brandishing a sword in each hand, led her troops against the Chinese. In 248, a 23-year-old girl put on a suit of golden armor, climbed on the back of an elephant, and led her army into the field against Viet Nam's foreign invaders...
...Khrushchev dared Peking to take its case to the Soviet people: "I declare to those who would like to overthrow us-I challenge you, comrades-let's pick out any plant or collective farm. You present your program and we will present ours. You won't need armor or a pillow for protection. Our people are polite. They'll listen and say: 'Get out of here...