Word: spear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spear-heading the undergraduates activity is the War Service Committee which has been responsible for recruiting nearly 500 Air Raid Precaution officers, one-hundred volunteer hospital orderlies, sending several thousand students to the Red Cross Blood Center and selling $6,000 in War Bonds and Stamps...
Despite his thoroughness, Schorr did not get through his farewell performance without a slip. The spear he carried fell apart in his hands several minutes before Melchior was to sever it with a blow of Siegfried's sword. But Friedrich Schorr overrode this mishap. Said he: "I am really very happy. I consider it a great blessing to be able to retire of my own accord...
Emperor Haile Selassie had another way in 1935 when Mussolini's troops attacked: "Everyone will now be mobilized, and all boys old enough to carry a spear will be sent to Addis Ababa. Married men will take their wives to carry food and cook. Those without wives will take any women without husbands. Women with small babies need not go. The blind, those who cannot walk or for any reason cannot carry a spear, are exempt. Anyone found at home after receipt of this order will be hanged...
...years (until 1930) Margaret Matzenauer was one of the most experienced and versatile singers who ever appeared at the Met. A born trouper (daughter of a Hungarian opera conductor), she was able to switch from Carmen to Ortrud or Amneris to Delilah at the drop of a spear. An exception among opera singers (most of whom have to have their parts drilled into them by coaches and conductors), she could sit down at the piano and teach herself the most taxing roles. Always a robust Brünnehilde, Matzenauer became one of the most prodigious (203 Ib.) singers ever...
They clucked approval of the farmers, and of handsome, diligent Robert Spear Hudson, 56-year-old heir of a soap fortune, who has proved himself Britain's most effective Minister of Agriculture in this century. Together Hudson and the farmers have accomplished near-miracles with Britain's tradition-ridden and big-business-ridden agriculture. In three years they have...