Word: sworde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity fencing team opened its 1955 season Friday night with an 18-9 loss to Cornell. Featuring two eastern intercollegiate champions, Cornell won in all three weapons, sabre, opee, and sword, by a 6-3 score...
...Madrid, Movie Director John (The African Queen) Huston strode from a bar to a courtyard next door, with cape and sword braved the rushes of a small bull with blunted horns. When Huston executed a couple of passable pases naturales, café aficionados, astonished at the amateur torero's skill, acclaimed him with "Olé, Juan, olé!" Huston was all for fighting the beast to some sort of finish, but a pressagent rescued the director before he found the pastime goring...
...Disney's door. Production costs on cartoons were rising so fast that they gobbled up the profit as it came in. Walt turned to another source of income. With funds blocked in Britain, he made four live-action features between 1950 and 1953: Treasure Island, Robin Hood, The Sword and the Rose, Rob Roy. They were all amazingly good in the same way. Each struck exactly the right note of wonder and make-believe. The mood of them all was lightsome, modest. Nobody was trying to make a great picture. The settings, in the British countryside, were lovely-wide...
...Some of the costumes were sent on to New York by mistake," he said, "so we just cawn't use all of you. I'm ever so sorry." He gestured to a boy standing near him. "You look Spanish," he said. "You can be one of the sword-bearers." He hesitated a moment. "Oh God no, not with that horrid crew-cut. You'd stand out like a sore thumb...
...many Senators realized that failure to grant Bilbo a committee hearing was an unjust violation of traditional Senate procedure. These Senators, then, were supporting an unsavory colleague because he had received unfair treatment. In doing this, they almost lost sight of the fact that Bilbo himself made unfairness a sword, and abusive language his cutting edge...