Word: spearing
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...Aides, police, guards lining the way, all opened fire at once. Two soldiers were killed; six soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the scrimmage. The assassin, one Abelardo de Mendoza, member of the suppressed Apra revolutionary party, fell riddled with bullets and pierced by a lancer's spear. Chosen Provisional President to succeed Sanchez Cerro was cautious General Oscar Benavides, who has already served a term as Provisional President of Peru. Foreign correspondents wagered that one of his first moves will be to accept the League of Nations decision and end the Leticia...
...Koldhard Fax" will be played by K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, in the presentation of "License Revoked," a one-act play on capital punishment. Mather will be arrayed against Mand Lynn Sentiment, Mrs. Vie Tim Foakes, and Spear I. T. Murder...
From the moment Henry Ford gave him his first big tire order some 30 years ago, Harvey Samuel Firestone has been one of Mr. Ford's few close friends. The friendship explains a great deal about Mr. Firestone. Mr. Ford never lifts his spear without waggling it at bankers. Mr. Firestone's particular windmill is the mailorder tire. Each has a brand of individualism...
...Greek camp manages to get his daughter exchanged for a Trojan prisoner. Greek Warrior Diomede cocks his helmet at her, and soon to good purpose. Pining Troilus hears rumors of Cressida's faithlessness. When they are confirmed he is not sorry to meet death on Achilles' spear. Famed English Sculptor Eric Gill (who did inter alia the Leeds University War Memorial and London's Westminster Cathedral's Stations of the Cross) has enhanced the text with 50 woodcuts...
...been studying her skull with microscope and calipers, classify her as a Mongoloid type, more Eskimo than Indian. Professor Jenks puts her age at 17½ years. From a nick on the inner side of her shoulder blade he deduces the "murder." It may have been caused by a spear or arrow striking through her heart, through her right lung. She may have been crossing the glacial lake at whose bottom her bones were found. Perhaps she was on a raft or in a canoe, or crossing on ice. She was wearing shell pendants in her hair, around her neck...