Word: daggered
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...Honor by Dagger. After two days back in Washington, the President took off for Abilene to dedicate the new Eisenhower Memorial Museum. Ike himself was surprised at the number of people who waited along highways and streets to catch a glimpse of him. On a tour of the old Eisenhower home he was visibly annoyed when he saw that tourists had gouged pieces of plaster out of the house's walls as souvenirs...
With a crashing of heavy artillery and a booming of loudspeakers, China's Reds last week reopened their attack on Quemoy, the Nationalist island which thrusts like a dagger toward the Communist mainland seven miles away. After a few days of silence, Red guns had resumed their bombardment. Hour after hour the loudspeakers screamed across the sea to the dug-in Nationalists that the Reds would take Quemoy by Oct. 15. In Peking, Defense Minister General Peng Teh-huai ordered his troops to "be constantly prepared for combat" and promised, "We shall assuredly free Formosa from the yoke...
...towering masterpiece. Old age robbed Verdi of none of his genius, and at times the Falstaff melodies have all the melting tenderness of Ada or Trovatore. The orchestra trills and chortles in a mischievous manner most of the time, and the Maestro sees to it that every note is dagger-sharp. Although the voices are not all of surpassing beauty, there is enough standout singing to add up to a unique recording...
...With her red carnations.' said [a wedding guest], 'she looks most of all like a dove with a dagger in its breast...
newsmen managed to get a quick look at the rebel army - 2,000-odd Indian-faced peasants, no two dressed alike but most of them wearing blue armbands with the white dagger and cross of the "Liberation Movement." They fingered black burp guns and seemed to have plenty of ammunition. The officers were upper-crust Guatemalan exiles-lawyers, engineers, coffee planters driven out for their politics or stripped of some of their land under Arbenz' Communist-administered agrarian reform program. Castillo Armas himself turned out to be a slender, sallow, diffident man in a checked shirt and leather jacket...