Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crossing blades in The Bronx with the best swordsmen in the East, the Naval Academy's foil, epee and saber wielders won the three-weapon title at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships by the thin edge of a single saber bout...
...February. High-spiritedly, the teen-agers marched off toward the Ministry of Education. Almost any mild measure would presumably have stopped them, but the police-minded government of President Marcos Pérez Jimenez sent well-armed cops. Angered and insulted by student insolence, the police attacked with sabers and (according to some accounts) fired on the shrieking school kids. An army officer arrived in time to see his daughter struck by a cop with the flat of a saber; he shot the policeman on the spot...
...income. The G.O.P. "made off with the Democratic farm plank" in 1952, Mr. Stevenson contends, but "returned it immediately after the election." On other main issues of his current campaign, such as the Administration's "giveaway" of public resources, its favoritism toward big business, and its "rattling of the saber" in world affairs, the author similarly charges that the G.O.P. has renounced the Democrat-inspired policies on which it rode into office...
...19th Party Congress 3½ years earlier, Georgy Malenkov, Stalin's own choice for party leadership, had also enunciated the principle of coexistence, but had coupled it with forensic saber-rattling about the "brutal fascist regime" in Washington. Last week Khrushchev was all milk and honey...
ADLAI: "I think almost the best example of intemperance in public life that we have lately witnessed is the Secretary of State's recent magazine advertising of his peculiar talent for rattling the saber and brandishing the bomb ... If the Eisenhower Administration has to brag some more about something, I wish it could boast instead about resolute marches to the brink of peace instead of to the brink of war . . . And another thing-the sudden Soviet pressure for a treaty of friendship implying that any agreement on Germany depends on the U.S. accepting this treaty calls for most careful...