Word: saber
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...French have been so busy trying to be one, rattling the saber and making pretentious claims . . . that they haven't even been able to . . . keep their people from going cold and hungry this...
Yamada's army proved to have few aircraft, and no worth-while outer defenses. Whether the Kwantung Army, long expert at saber-rattling, had decided to put up or shut up, the Russians had already approached strategic points in Manchuria...
...Carter came back into the foxhole, two Japs charged. Carter fired twice, but his new rifle jammed, too. He grabbed a Jap rifle, yesterday's souvenir, and impaled one of the attackers on its bayonet. The other Jap swung his saber, split Carter's hand. But Bill Harrell still had one hand left. He raised the carbine, shot the saber-waving...
When Duke Carter returned, the Japs had given up trying. As Bill Harrell was carried away he opened his eyes and muttered: "Get that saber for me." Carter got it, sent it home to his friend's mother in Mercedes...
...Generals opened their blouses, unbuckled their belts. Ushijima leaned forward and with both hands pressed the blade against his belly. One of his adjutants did not wait for the knife to plunge deep. With his razor-sharp saber he lopped off his superior's head. General Cho leaned forward against his blade. The adjutant swung again. Orderlies took the bodies away...