Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lord Cardigan never looked back. Picking a path between two Russian guns, he rode into the battery "steady as a church," and pushed straight on through a pall of smoke. Behind him, his saber-wielding troopers began to cut down the Russian gunners, but Lord Cardigan was too much of a peer to join in. It was "no part of a general's duty," he said later, "to fight the enemy among private soldiers." In a few moments, he was clear of the guns-and face-to-face, at a mere 20 yards, with the entire Russian cavalry...
Punch & Judy. Despite the emphasis on violence, few crime shows are very frightening. The general ineptitude of the writing, acting and direction in such programs as Rocky King, Mark Saber, Big Town, Boston Blackie and Front Page Detective makes it impossible to take them with any more seriousness than so many Punch & Judy shows. Even those done on a slightly higher level of technical competence have peculiar quirks of their own: Treasury Men in Action suffers from a tendency to explain everything twice; Racket Squad aims at exposing the tricks of confidence men but has a hard time working...
...daring cadet, taking the role of the rebel Colonel Capois, mounted a horse and led them forward again. In the real battle, the horse was shot from under Capois; in simulation, the mock colonel actually shot his own mount. Falling, he charged on afoot, like Capois, brandishing his saber...
...originated in Africa got a boost when a nearly complete lower jaw of Australopithecus prometheus was found at Makapansgat in the Transvaal this month. Anthropologists now have most of the skull parts (from different individuals) of a "proto-man" who probably lived one million years ago, along with saber-toothed tigers and giant hyenas. Professor Raymond A. Dart of Witwatersrand University gave Prometheus his name because some of his bones contained free carbon, which indicates that they had been burned, and hints at the use of fire...
...weak spot was a battalion parachute drop; an aggressor cavalry force, led by a saber-swinging commander, was in among the paratroops before they got ready to fight. But on the whole, the foreigners were impressed. Said Sir John Harding, chief of the British Imperial General Staff: "The allied program of giving weapons to Yugoslavia can go ahead." Said Major General Charles Palmer, chief of staff of U.S. Army Field Forces: "They took hold of American equipment in good shape, even though they had some of it only a short time...