Word: spearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month after meeting spear-carrying warriors in the South Seas, Pope John Paul II visited alien territory again: Switzerland, where his conservatism has drawn fire from both Protestants and liberal Catholics. But throughout his six-day tour last week, the Pope stood his ground...
...later, John Paul was welcomed to the steamy heat of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands with a fanfare played on conch shells and by an honor guard of spear-carrying tribes men. About one-sixth of the archipelago's scattered population of 300,000 is Catholic. Gathered before a plain wooden altar, the Solomon Islanders gave no thunderous cheers but greeted John Paul by falling silent, a traditional sign of respect...
...your motherland, but does she love you?" The following month, Bai was given a national award for his poetry by the Ministry of Culture. When Bai wrote another play last year, he took the precaution of setting it in the uncontroversial past. Sure enough, however, King of Wu 's Spear and King of Yue's Sword was castigated for "attacking the present by explaining the past." Says another noted playwright: "The general attitude of intellectuals is wait and see. There are still gusts of wind. It will take time to cool down...
...form the opening and closing chapters of Dark Lady. The first, Will and Testament, is a bawdy historical pastiche in which Shakespeare, with Ben Jonson's connivance, manages to insert his name in the King James translation of the 46th Psalm ("Though the mountains shake . . . He cutteth the spear . . ."). The other, The Muse, tells of a scholar from an alternative universe who time-travels to Elizabethan England to verify Shakespeare's authorship of the plays. The scholar meets a bad end, but his copies of the plays fall into the hands of the Bard, who blithely plagiarizes them...
...Marine, the American at the tip of the spear of American diplomacy...