Word: spear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Example. As the 5-ft.-10-in. "runt" in a family of six-footers, Ted Timberlake took plenty of lumps growing up. Pat was his special idol in athletics. Because Pat had been a javelin thrower, Ted manfully tossed the steel-tipped spear around. Pat had been a star blocking back. Ted played one season, lost another with injuries, wound up warming the bench...
Baruch always operated alone, always held high his reputation for personal integrity. Twice unfriendly Congressional committees tried to spear him; each time he emerged without a scratch...
Some 200,000 Nagas live in an area of about 4,000 sq. mi. They live a communal existence, share food and work (although males usually retire at the age of eight and thereafter devote themselves to mastering and using the spear, crossbow and dah, a wicked knife). They are capable though casual farmers. Some raise pigs for trade, but for eating they prefer the dog, which is bred for the Naga table...
...lesson, too. His example was Ritchie's failure before Tobruk: a massed and disastrous assault by British tanks without infantry support. (Said one American observer: "He sent the backfield into the game but kept the line on the bench.") At El Alamein it was different. Montgomery's spear head of armor burst through a breach made by artillery and infantry...
...knew what had actually been planned and what had been done. Very possibly there had never been a plan for him to break through to the sea. Last week his strength was identified as one armored and three infantry divisions, and that would certainly have been a slim spear to throw at the coast. But George Patton must have had passing thoughts of an opportunity missed...