Word: blunderbuss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Expenditures Committee, stationed in Newark, flushed one witness after another to tell what he knew about the partridge dances in neighboring Hudson County, where Democratic Committee Vice Chairman Frank Hague is boss of the bush. The Committee's valiant Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey watched and listened, with blunderbuss at the ready. Beside him sat his colleague, Senator Alva Adams, little, solid and Democratic, who would rather be off hunting in Republican-controlled South Jersey counties...
Cortes tricked the Aztec Montezuma by posing as Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god, and then methodically subdued the Indians with blunderbuss and broadsword. For the next 200-odd years New Spain, ruled from Mexico City but extending for a time as far as South Carolina, experienced what some historians have called a Golden Age. The Spaniards brought with them horses (but used the Indians as men of burden), wheat (the Indians still eat maize tortillas), such things as woolen blankets, armchairs, caps (for which the Indians exchanged jewels, silver, gold). The only things the Spaniards gave the Indians were smallpox...