Word: ironshod
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Ever since the Knights of the Teutonic Order stormed ironshod over northeastern Europe, German military commanders have made their marks as rigid disciplinarians who brooked no nonsense from anyone, civilians in particular. In Bonn last week, ambitious young Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss made headline news by turning the tables...
...fervent complaint of the late King George VI was attended to: the flattened, ironshod wheels of the Royal State Coach were rounded off and fitted with solid rubber tires. After his own coronation day ride in 1937, the King vowed that no heir of his should be subjected to a similar experience...
...long rope which they snubbed to ice axes rammed into the snow. All afternoon six men carried the stretcher while three others paid out the rope, foot by foot, then found another purchase for the axes and eased the stretcher a little farther down the mountain. Barefoot, lest his ironshod boots slip on the rocks, another rescuer climbed to exhausted Faye Plank, got her safely down as well. A doctor at Bellingham discovered that Anne Cedarquist had a punctured lung, a fractured shoulder, severe sunburn from the reflected glare of ice and snow, but, barring complications, would live for another...
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