Word: pommel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, during the pillage of Mantes, William's horse, stumbled and threw him against the pommel of the saddle. That did it. The injured sac became gangrenous and William, at 59 an old man by medieval standards, could not combat the infection. At last the sac ruptured, Miss Gardner believes, and peritonitis developed. One consolation: even if William's doctors had known what was the matter with him, they wouldn't have known what to do; they had no sulfonamide drugs and no techniques for abdominal surgery...
George VI of England gave "the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad" a four-foot, two-handed sword with a double-edged blade, a chased silver crosspiece, a grip wrapped in 18-carat gold wire, a pommel of rock crystal...