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Word: sword (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Ron Winfield and sophomore Larry Cetrulo could also go undefeated in the sabre. Fast-improving Tony Abbott, who came up with a surprise win over his Tiger opponent in the sabre, will give the fencers a three-man threat in that sword...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swordsmen Host Brandeis Today | 2/26/1969 | See Source »

...strategy coach Edo Marion plans to follow demands that the team do well in both the sabre and epee weapons while taking at least three points in the foil. The foil is Harvard's weakest sword, and poor showings in this weapon have accounted for two of the team's three losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squashmen Defeat Princeton, 6-3; Fencers Challenge Rutgers Today | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Temple Trophies. Except for a few tantalizing hints ("I come not to bring peace but a sword"), little of Jesus' militancy appears in the Gospels. The reason, argues Brandon, was that Christianity early in its history underwent an earth-shaking trauma: the fall of Jerusalem. In A.D. 70, the legionaries of the Emperor Vespasian and his son Titus put down a four-year rebellion led by a group of Jewish rebels known as the Zealots, and destroyed the city. In Rome, where Titus returned in triumph brandishing trophies from the ruined Temple, feelings were running high against Jewish intransigence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: A Political, Patriotic Jesus | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...sense of the concrete. His admiration for grand designs of the spirit was tempered, as the letters show, by a fine sensuous eye. "Imagine slender, tall Chinese women like snakes erected upright," he reported during his first visit to Singapore. "Never did the human body look so like a sword. And through the dresses slit open at the sides, at each step, the yellow blade of the leg glistens-slender, strong, irresistible-right up to the pelvis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Willing Spirit | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...does not have to be this way. One act of good faith could transform this situation like the stroke of a sword. One decent act on the order of "the fourth alternative is to remove you by force. And none of us is prepared even to consider this"--one decent act would move all but the most hardened ideologue to reconsider his attitudes. But in the same way, further acts of distrust and rigidity, no matter what principles they embody will only serve to move the most open minded of students into the camp of the ideologues...

Author: By Jay Cantor, | Title: Politics of Ultimatum | 12/16/1968 | See Source »

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