Word: daggering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard for me to see my brother as a "bizarre character." He goes barefoot for the same reason that people in any warm seaside community go barefoot, and he wears shoes when convention requires. And that's not a dagger. It's an all-purpose knife, similar to ones used by ranchers or sailors...
...meaning "Big Master." For their labor, the Malays are paid six Cocos rupees a week (about $2) in plastic tokens redeemable only at Clunies-Ross's own store. Clunies-Ross, 43, is depicted as something of a bizarre character who strides around the island barefoot with a Scottish dagger in his belt...
...affairs." For Lenin it was "the gymnasium of the mind," for Einstein a demon "that holds its master in its own bonds, fetters and in some ways shapes his spirit." Said H.G. Wells: "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you want to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable. But teach him, inoculate him with chess. It annihilates...
Hungary was not the only stop during Rogers' trip where things went unexpectedly well. In Yemen, where he had to fly through sandstorms to dine with dagger-armed tribal chieftains, diplomatic relations were resumed after a five-year hiatus. The Secretary of State watched as the U.S. flag was raised over the embassy in San'a for the first time since the outbreak of the 1967 war between Israel and the Arabs. In return Washington last week began talks on a new U.S. assistance program for the Yemenis...
...really starting novelty that Kahn has introduced is the staging of the actual assassination of Caesar. At this point Casca and the rest of the conspirators execute their dagger thrusts and other bodily movements in ultra slow-motion, turning the scene into a graceful choreographed ritual. The director perhaps got the idea from the slow-motion violence in such recent movies as Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, and Bunch Cassidy and the Sundance...