Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several day ago, give or take a fortnight, there appeared (was seen) in Cambildge on the Churls what perverted to be an unvirused devaluation of In His Own Write. In our detestimation, the reviewer (what reviewed the book) was in his own spite like unto a hard dazed knight charging a fat breezy windmill on a three-legged horse. We view this hole unfair with gravid constipation. And all this not even to mention what we haven't mentioned. A Blazing Guy Forks Day, David Malln '66 and The Four Bagels
Dueling Rommel. Patton saw his life as one long joust with the world. In peacetime, he trained himself for war as a medieval knight training for battle. He was a ferocious competitor in the pentathlon, in which he finished fifth in the 1912 Olympics, and polo, in which he was a seven-goal player. In his last year at West Point, he thrust his head into the line of fire during a sharpshooting exercise. "I just wanted to see how afraid I'd be," he explained, "and to train myself not to be." When war came, Patton...
Raymonda, as revised and presented last week by Leningrad's Kirov Ballet at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, makes no more sense. There's still the wicked Saracen and the noble Hungarian knight named Jean de Brienne, a duel, an attempted abduction, a wed ding, Spanish and Moorish dances, and of course the maiden Raymonda herself...
...been expected. Engle had been bedridden much of the time since he under went surgery last August. The onetime cowpoke, amateur boxer and licensed pilot had served eight terms as Congressman from California's huge (53,-400 sq. mi.) Second District, had walloped ex-Governor Goodwin Knight by 600,000 votes in the 1958 race for the Senate, but had withdrawn this year because of his illness. That cleared the way for Salinger to make his successful primary...
...demanding a full day's extra pay for working more than eight hours in any day, the battle lines were clearly drawn, and the unions embarked on their succession of Detroit strikes with an implacability of purpose that matched the publishers'. Three years ago, after John Knight shut the door on union pressmen in Miami, the union exported a contingent of Miami picketers to Detroit. Free Press pressmen promptly walked...