Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland, in Austria and throughout the Balkan peninsula, more angry and embittered objectors to Hitler's New Order dug gun or saber from under the floor and went off to mountain passes or to city cellars to kill Germans. Last week...
...Consciousness. To Occidentals, no Hindu deity is stranger than Kali. "She wears necklaces of gold and pearls, a golden garland of human heads, and a girdle of human arms. . . . She has four arms. The lower left hand holds a severed human head and the upper grips a bloodstained saber. One right hand offers boons to Her children; the other allays their fear. The majesty of Her posture can hardly be described. It combines the terror of destruction with the reassurance of motherly tenderness...
...Hickory, who knows his politicians, rattles his saber, polishes off the choice Maryland rye that teetotaling Holden fetches him from the drugstore, and bellows: "Rascals and poltroons! Every one of 'em. If I were in charge, I'd do with them what I should have done to Henry Clay." "What's that?" inquires Holden. "Hang 'em!" says Old Hickory...
Coach Rene Peroy's swordsmen run into a twelve-team thicket of opposition when they enter the Intercollegiate Fencing Association meet. Three representatives in each of the events, foil, epee, and saber will carry the Crimson standard in New York this weekend...
Angered, acquitting himself surprisingly well for a man who had never used the saber, Damonte pinked Rottjer's forearm, sliced through the thick hairs on his opponent's chest and left a trail of blood...