Word: poniard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bladder & Poniard. Next day burly, blue-suited Nye Bevan strode forward. Looking straight at Churchill, he lashed out: "I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth." Churchill heaved himself to his feet and objected to the word "lies." The bewigged Speaker overruled him. Thereafter Churchill sat back impassively, sometimes as if dozing, and let the waves of invective roll over him. The only sign of anger was the growing pallor of his face...
...please only those who want to make a legend of Patton. Essentially it is a rewrite of Headquarters section reports into a kind of headline-writer's jab-&-smash jargon. It is jerky, often ungrammatical, unblushingly awkward: "The enemy's vitals had been pierced. An Armored poniard was stabbed squarely in the middle of his rear and athwart his main line of communications. . . . The enemy was beset from every quarter in a welter of triphammer blows, chaos, death, and destruction. On the ground and in the air he was mauled and ravaged from every side. . . . Third Army...
...death camp of Jasenovac, Professor Premeru said he saw four quisling executioners, Kojic, Matijevic, Pudic and Gasparic, drinking the blood spouting out of their victims' gashes and licking their blood-stained poniards. Another quisling, Majstrorovic-Filipovic, the inventor of the "cup-and-ball game," caught with his poniard live babies which soldiers threw...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. rapped the map with his leather riding crop, which sheathes a glistening poniard. He pointed with it to the next objective, a town 50 miles away. Said he to a Third Army corps commander: "Get there-any way you want to." As he had before, he was demanding the impossible of his supply officers. As before, in this miraculous month, they would get the impossible done...