Word: broadsword
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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...
...Governor Clyde Roark Hoey enjoyed the sight of a New Deal project, a new Fort Raleigh, erected by WPA. Then the President climbed upon a flag-bedecked stage and launched on one of his favorite themes, a modern political parable to a historical incident which he used as a broadsword to slash his political enemies...
Carols in public, showed a 15th Century broadsword...
...edition of the production, which was made by a German company in Rome. It might, at slight expense, have been made in Hollywood, for nothing much is done with Roman street scenes and most of the best shots are interiors. Conrad Veidt, in armor, dies after a broadsword fight with his sister's third husband...
...Large, heavy knife resembling a broadsword. Used by Spanish Americans for cutting cane, clearing paths, or for self defense...