Word: sword
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swift Sword. Pressing for a swift sword stroke against Hanoi's logistical network, McConnell cited the Israeli air attacks last June against the Egyptians: "If you had applied those sorties in 1965 when the North Vietnamese had practically no defense up there, you could have gone a long way. They had no opposition." Then he added with phlegmatic poignancy: "So it is a different world than...
Testing the Temper. No such ailments seem likely to cut short Damascus' career. Sired by Sword Dancer, himself a two-time winner of the Woodward, Damascus is as sound as his steely name and just beginning to test his temper. In his first campaign last season, he won three out of four starts and $25,865 in purses. So far in 1967, he has won 11 out of 14, including both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Winnings this year: $723,651, which puts him within easy reach of the one-year record of $752,550 set by Nashua...
...bigger fish in the ocean-but not by much. The alltime record is 1,182 Ibs., caught by the late Lou Marron off Chile in 1953, and monsters easily twice as big have been seen. To that frightening bulk add fantastic speed (up to 60 m.p.h.), a long, terrible sword with which Gladius slays his prey, and a personality of regal, often violent, disdain for virtually anything and everything he encounters in the water...
...estimate that the odds against an angler simply spotting a broadbill on any given day are 10 to 1. Even then the odds against hooking the fish are 15 to 1. Swordfish have to be coddled into taking a bait; with a full stomach only the most dessert-happy sword can be tempted by mackerel or squid. Fishermen have been known to make ten or more passes before a lazing giant without achieving so much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait, the battle is generally lost then...
swordfish, practically a baby, took umbrage at the 16-ton research submarine Alvin at a depth of 2,000 ft., rammed its sword through the fiber-glass outer shell, causing such trouble that the submarine was forced to surface...