Word: saber
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...quick, fast game that always keeps them on their tees. They also can get some good laughs out of the movies. For fencing isn't the brassy, horeic sport of technicolor films, and not even Peroy--an Olympic champ--would try to hold off the French Army with one saber and some balsa-weed chairs...
...terms. Last year, Peroy built a top-flight squad that lost only to Cornell and Yale--the latter game by a heavily-disputed one point. Last year also produced a team that pulled as many Three-Musketeer antics as a fencing team can. John Gay used to slash his saber as if he were swatting mosquitoes in a Cuban jungle. Red McNeil had his own little trick. He'd lunge out with a saber and then roll onto his back to escape the counterpunch. It was unconventional and it looked good, even if it was kid stuff...
Butcher Knife. Then the presidential train began a station-to-station run to Buffalo. Seven thousand people stayed through a violent cloudburst at Auburn, Republican Congressman John Taber's home town. They cheered lustily as Harry Truman berated Taber for using "a butcher knife and a saber and a meat ax . . . on every forward-looking program . . ." There were more crowds at Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo. And there would be great crowds again this week as the President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon...
...were pressed for time, and I know that people who are about to be executed always indulge in talking to the minister." At this the maddened courtroom audience, broke into howls of "Schweinehund!", and surged forward towards Kappler's bench. A muscle danced in his jaw and the saber scar on his left cheek blazed crimson as carabinieri forced the crowd back...
Epee--John Ager (4 1/2-4 1/2), Halton Arp (2-7), Thomas Masterson (2 1/2-6 1/2) Foile--Raymond Frankmann (2-8), William Raney (4-6), Stanley Sheldon (4-6). Saber--Norman Ellis (7-3), John Gay (3-7), Neil MacNeil...