Word: daggers
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...Black Shirts in Umbria presented to King Boris of Bulgaria on the occasion of his marriage [to Princess Giovanna of Italy] a simple, brightly polished dagger, taken from the regular arms depot of the Fascist Militia. How full of symbolical significance is this severe and lofty gift...
...seemed that this dagger thrust, coming just before the meeting summoned by Mr. Baldwin, meant his demise as Leader. But even as Baron Beaverbrook savored his triumph, Brewer Gretton suddenly found himself in bad odor. He found that a great many Conservatives considered the manifesto "not cricket" (dirty politics). Within a few hours Brewer Gretton and four other Conservatives whose names were supposed to be on the manifesto informed Leader Baldwin that they had not signed...
...thing no one argues-Shamrock V is handsome. Hers is a gull-shaped green body, striped with a white boot-top at the waterline, the light swell amidships giving a look of speed. Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind...
...berth was a dark sodden pool of blood, upon it in terrible agony writhed Lieutenant-Commander Yeiji Kusakari. He had chosen the most painful and for a Samurai the most noble death: harakiri. With a short dagger which had belonged in medieval times to one of his ancestors he had slashed his abdomen through and through...
...violate no trust, we betray no confidence, when we point out that according to Professors Dana G. Munro's and Raymond Sontag's "Middle Ages" university students in that period were required to sign a pledge that in case they failed a course they would not "use a dagger or knife on their examiner...