Word: sworde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dreamily peripatetic Mr. Eliot who walked on the beach wearing, like Prufrock, white flannel trousers and reading Virgil or Dante. Above all, dogging the steps of the other Messrs. Eliot, was the increasingly cynical young man who wrote verse as polished and as sharp as a Guardsman's sword. He created a gallery of unforgettable characters: Mr. Apollinax, the faun-like, fragile embodiment of the dry intellect (whose "laughter tinkled among the teacups"); Apeneck Sweeney, the dumb incarnation of a brutal age; Grishkin, the musky, eternally feline feminine...
...hourly-paid workers, and $10 off the quarterly pay of 72,000 salaried employees. As it had done before, G.M. simultaneously cut the prices of its cars-from $10 on Chevrolets to $40 on the most expensive Cadillacs. But the union no longer liked the double-edged sword. It announced last week that when the G.M. contract expires in May, it will wash its hands of the deal, go after a guaranteed annual wage instead. Cried Walter Reuther...
...week-long round of mutual expressions of good will followed the pageantry of welcome. The betrothal of Rana's granddaughter to a Kashmiri prince was announced. Before going home, the guest of honor will receive a diamond-studded sword from India's Defense Minister Sardar Baldev Singh-an earnest of more up-to-date military aid to come...
Points are scored in that branch of the sport when a fencer hits any part of his opponents body. Previously, red ink had been used on the sword tips to indicate hits, but there was often uncertainty in close action as to which man made the first...
...course of Kaye's antic fun with this plot, he makes an entrance with his head on a platter, gorges himself in fast motion at a feast, keeps a roomful of conspirators hidden from one another, tugs frantically at a sword that refuses to come out of its scabbard...