Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Rene Peroy's swordsmen ran into some fierce competition in the Intercollegiate Fencing Association championship at New York over the weekend, and it was only a strong performance by the saber team that enabled Harvard to achieve sixth place...
Navy, the defending champion in the epee and saber divisions and team leader in three-weapon totals, won handily in the first two but was deposed as team champion by CCNY. with a first in the foils, a second in the epee and a third in the saber...
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...