Word: dirk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into the Fire. In Springfield, Mass., police said that hospital attendants treated Joseph Jaciow for a new stomach ache after he had innocently tried to cut out the old one with his dirk...
...Dartmouth Naval College Philip won the King's Dirk as the best cadet of his term. Then came war, sea duty on H.M.S. Ramillies and a commission as lieutenant aboard the Valiant. He was mentioned in dispatches for good work at the battle of Matapan (240 miles from his birthplace...
...they faced a second ordeal. At the far end of Peacock Alley, the agonized wail of bagpipes announced the arrival of four kilted veterans, bearing aloft a haggis, "great chieftain o' the puddin' race." Behind them, a kilted soldier carried a sheathed dirk at the salute, closely followed by a proud bearer holding on high a bottle of King's Ransom Scotch whiskey...
...more exuberant fashions of the Italian Renaissance swept their homely, literal art from popularity. But before it had done so, Van Eyck and his immediate successors, Roger van der Weyden, Dirk Bouts, Hans Memling and Ger ard David, had made their mark on history as the first realists in European...
...stated that music audiences in the Soviet have increased many fold since the Czarist regime was overthrown. A member of the Communist Party gave statistics to show that Soviet industrial power has been growing steadily, particularly in the last ten years, and regeneration of Soviet science was emphasized by Dirk Strulk...