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...felt hats. They were hustled into a car and driven across Moscow to the American embassy, where even the Marine guard did not recognize them (said one Marine later: "They looked like Russians"). They were handed over to U.S. officials; Ambassador Thompson briefed them on the cloak-and-dagger arrangements that had been made to get them out of Russia unrecognized. Seats had already been reserved on a KLM Electra-under other names. Crisp new passports with Soviet exit visas were ready. There was barely time to smoke an American cigarette before they were rushed to Sheremetyevo Airport...
...broke away from Hinduism because of its caste system and its vast pantheon of gods and demigods, and established a monotheistic religion without images or taboos, but with a strong moral code. Sikh men, in order to emphasize their apartness, leave their hair and beards uncut and wear a dagger symbolic of the militancy of their faith. Through better diet and attention to personal cleanliness, the Sikhs in time became markedly taller and sturdier than their neighbors, supplying the Indian army with some of its finest fighting men. Warning Light. At week's end, police arrests of Sikhs rose...
...wild tribesmen Shamyl ruled lived by the shashka (saber) and kindjal (long dagger). "They sabre each other in the way of friendship," wrote the Russian Poet Lermontov, who, like Pushkin, served in the Caucasus and died in a duel there...
...human questions with an excitement that indicates that there exists in Russia today a black market in religious ideas. He raises unanswerable questions-including some that are universal and unanswered on either side of the Iron Curtain. His modest hero Rabinovich at the labor camp has dug up a dagger with a handle shaped like a crucifix. "How do you like that?" he asks. "A nice place they found for God-the handle of a deadly weapon. Are you going to deny it? God was the end and they turned him into the means-a handle. And the dagger...
...Gardner fall into intimate clutch during one of the first air raids of the Spanish Civil War. That very morning Bogarde had left the church because its hierarchy sympathized with Francisco Franco's rebels. But after the raid, in the kind of irony that cuts like a rubber dagger, he is hunted down by a mob of enraged Loyalists who have convinced themselves that the city's priests signaled enemy planes from the cathedral tower. (The Loyalists are represented as Communistic priest-murderers, and Franco's troops as mostly good joes...