Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle of his rear and athwart his main line of communications. . . . The enemy was beset from every quarter in a welter of triphammer blows, chaos, death, and destruction. On the ground and in the air he was mauled and ravaged from every side. . . . Third Army's eviscerating dagger remained pinned and unblunted in their lacerated flank...
Hatches & Horrors. Twice the President had to duck objects hurled at him. One time a dagger was thrown; it was made of rubber. Another time, during a parade, a well-wrapped ham sandwich dropped into his lap from an apartment house in The Bronx...
...moral in his works . . . also bears a visible Moloch-like stamp. . . . Cities smoking and in flames, slaughtered victims, raped women, even children hurled under horses' hooves or cringing under the dagger of delirious mothers-all his work, I say, resembles a terrible hymn composed in honor of doom and irremediable sorrow...
...obsessed by failure, Blakelock's mind began to crumble. He took to wearing multicolored sashes about his waist, tucking an antique dagger in his belt, bedecking himself with gaudy beads and trinkets. And while his growing family was forced to scrimp for food, he began to imagine himself a millionaire. Finally, in 1899, on the day that his ninth child was born, he was committed to an asylum. There, hopelessly insane, he spent most of the last 20 years of his life...
Last week, Helgoland's tunnels were packed with 6,400 tons of explosive. Birds were warned off with charges of TNT. Then a British naval vessel touched off the biggest bang since Bikini. A sixth of Helgoland slid into the sea. The dagger pointed at Britain was once again dulled-this time, the British hoped, for keeps...