Word: sworde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loyalty, Saul convinces himself that he must hunt David to his death to preserve Israel's hard-won unity. Interrupted by an invasion from the north, Saul sees his sons killed in the first crushing defeat of his reign. Bloodstained and abandoned by God, he falls on his sword as the Philistines sweep back into Israel...
...vote on it. "The Russian people have now had 39 years . . . the people of Eastern Europe have had a decade or more to appraise the system . . . The Soviet leaders are now unwilling to submit to the verdict of the peoples who know it best." Skillfully, Dulles picked up the sword of Khrushchev's own speech to point and prick at the Communist system, pointing out that...
...early 1800s, Sir Duncan Campbell, captain in H.M. Third Scots Fusilier Guards, donned his scarlet coat, carefully adjusted his black-and-white stock, tied on his red sash, buckled on his sword, and presented himself at Henry Raeburn's Edinburgh studio on York Place. As was his custom, Painter Raeburn squinted at his subject from under his heavy eyebrows, then boldly painted in Campbell's forehead, chin, nose and mouth directly on the canvas. Four or five visits later, the portrait (opposite) was done...
...French and German scholar, Ford published his first book, Robe and Sword: The Regrouping of the French Aristocracy after Louis XIV, in 1953. He gives alternate courses in French and German history when lecturing...
Daniel-Rops's popularity is not limited to churchmen. On his election to the French Academy last year, he won the votes of traditionally anticlerical members. And when a small group of friends began a fund to buy him the academician's customarily ornate sword, they were swamped by almost 2,000 contributors-including five cardinals, twelve foreign ambassadors, former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, Movie Actress Claude Nollier, Dressmaker Pierre Balmain, the entire staff of the women's magazine, Marie-Claire, and a boy scout troop...