Word: daggerisms
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...logs, they made a sturdy foundation for the lake dwellers' homes. In the peaty soil that now covers the crannogs, Raftery and his assistant have uncovered 17 dugout canoes beautifully hollowed from the solid trunks of great oaks. They have also found shards of undecorated pottery, axheads, a dagger, a chisel and other tools. They have dug up bronze ornaments, fragments of a Bronze Age trumpet and some well-preserved saddle querns, the primitive hand mills with which ancient man ground his grain...
...close. Apparently the State Department and Donnelly were correct in saying no "responsible" American official at HICOG knew of BDJ's covert U.S. support. The previous High Commissioner, John J. McCloy, had steadfastly refused to meet BDJ leaders. But shortly after the Reds invaded Korea, the U.S. cloak & dagger Central Intelligence Agency decided to prepare for a similar Red move into West Germany. It organized BDJ as a potential partisan group, and thought it could control its sympathies. Whether CIA was worried by the Nazi caste in BDJ is not yet clear. But last spring, to its horror...
...down on you as though he were leading a cavalry charge. A tasseled turban flies above his fierce, lean face, and the wind turns his wide, baggy pants into balloons. A rifle is slung across his back, and from the sash about his waist there hangs a great, curved dagger. As he reins up, he scowls ferociously and you murmur "Salaam" or "Marhaba" in greeting. Then, chances are, he will turn without a word or a sign, and gallop back across the valley and up the hill to tell his people, invisible across the ridge, that there is another damn...
...minority quickly recovered from this blitz attack, and Councilor W. Dennison Swan '17 shouted: "This is a shame and a disgrace to the council . . . I can see the fine hand with the Italian dagger plunged into the back." Councillors jumped up, shouted their pieces, and vented emotional steam. Two opposition councillors, Swan and Chester A. Higley, made an attempt to get the council to reconsider its action, but the try proved feeble; reconsideration was defeated 5 to 2 with two absent...
...minority quickly recovered from this blitz attack, and Councilor W. Dennison Swan '17 shouted: "This is a shame and a disgrace to the council . . . I can see the fine hand with the Italian dagger plunged into the back." Councillors jumped up, shouted their pieces, and vented emotional steam. Two opposition councillors, Swan and Chester A. Higley, made an attempt to get the council to reconsider its action, but the try proved feeble; reconsideration was defeated 5 to 2 with two absent...