Word: scabbard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARMED FORCES Something for a Scabbard The U.S. Army, grimly aware that its historic role and mission will be obsolete in the missile age, last week publicly wigwagged its hope of latching on to both a new weapon and way of life. To New York Timesman James Reston the Army passed the word that it had presented to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff a plan to produce an operational anti-missile missile* by 1961. Cost: between $6 billion and $7 billion. Name of the proposed missile system : the Army's Nike-Zeus...
...secret is out. Saud gave Ike a scimitar in a lavishly jeweled scabbard. Ike gave Saud an original painting of a Colorado landscape by a well-known amateur artist, bearing the initials D.D.E. in its corner, plus a desk...
...days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Howard W. Fitzpatrick, at the request of the University Marshall, will bring the meeting to order by striking the stage three times with his scabbard...
Traditionally, generals collect swords, and Ike's trophy collection is no exception.* There are the famed "Crusaders' Sword," which the city of London presented to General Eisenhower at the London Guildhall; an ancient Japanese sword with the imperial chrysanthemum on the scabbard, a gift of the men of the ist Cavalry Division; the jewel-encrusted, $300.000 sword of Wilhelmina, from The Netherlands; Marshal Zhukov's personal dagger; and ceremonial swords and daggers from a dozen other countries...
Powell M. Cabot, University Marshall, called for Sheriff Howard Fitzpatrick to signal the start of the ceremonies. Fitzpatrick struck the stage with his scabbard and said "the meeting will be in order...