Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a right and a wrong way to commit harakiri. In the case of General Anami and Vice Admiral Onishi, it is presumed that they donned the usual ceremonial robes, knelt on a dais, surrounded by friends and officials. When the jeweled hara-kiri dagger had been handed to them, they would have made many bows to the Emperor. Then they would have plunged the razor-like dagger into the left side below the waist, at the same time drawing it toward the right. They would thus have fulfilled the hara-kiri command: to die with honor, when...
...bony hands trembled as he unrolled a six-page scroll, but his voice held firm as he read: "History will show the evils from which I saved France.... Each day, with a dagger at my throat, I had to battle the demands of the enemy. ... I surrendered nothing essential. . . . My actions sustained France. I assured France of la vie et le pain (life and bread). ... I prepared the road to liberation...
...August best-seller lists were packed with tried-&-true favorites that had been published one, two, even three years ago. Still prominent in popular fiction lists were trusty epics (1942's The Robe; 1943's The Fountainhead); cloak-&-dagger tales set in more glamorous periods of history (Captain from Castile, Commodore Hornblower); fleshly garlands of love ("Oh!" sighed a harassed Manhattan bookdealer, "how tired I am of young girls whispering that they want Forever Amber...
...Russians say that "Kars is a British dagger pointed at Russia's heart-Baku." Kars dominates the valleys leading to Batum, Russia's rail and pipeline terminal on the Black Sea, and the Transcaucasian roads to Russia's biggest oilfields. But Kars can also be a Russian dagger pointed through Turkey at the British Empire's oil arteries. It flanks the Iranian province of Azerbaijan about which Russia is much concerned...
John Carradine, Hollywood cloak-&-dagger character actor, was arrested and released on $2,000 bail after his ex-wife complained that he was about to leave California without paying up the $4,116 back alimony she says he owes...