Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their Valhalla. In the wings, a huge Siegfried, mounted on a ladder, sagged his 230 Ibs. down onto waiting shoulders to be borne on stage. "I'm getting too fat for this," grumbled hefty Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. A warrior-god charged into musty corners, looking for his sword; bored spear carriers fumbled through a prop basket full of hunting horns. Behind the backdrop a ragged army of stagehands lounged on the rocks of the Rhine (out of use for the moment), gulping coffee from paper cartons and jeering at a stableboy who was trying to direct a sorrel horse...
...crux of the plot appears soon after. Parks is grabbed as a hostage, is recovered by his own clan who are then ambushed after they have just thrown a shake-and-be-friends banquet for the rival clan (following all this?) Parks has just time enough to grab his sword and change in his photogeuie, canary-yellow fencing jacket before he sets matters right. Tempers have quieted down in the end, but the colors are still blazing...
Last week, Commander John Caldecott Littler sat in a naval courtroom at Halifax, an empty scabbard at his side, his sword lying crosswise on a table before the president of the court. As a result of last summer's collision between his destroyer Micmac and the freighter Yarmouth County (TIME, July 28), half a dozen charges had been brought against him. The most serious: he had hazarded his ship...
...lesser charges were thrown out, but the court would have no truck with the nature-over-science argument. Stiffly it found that radar was only "an additional aid to navigation." Littler's sword now pointed directly at him: "Guilty." He was removed from his command, reprimanded. Said a brother officer: "Johnny's had his chips...
Saber practice on the 40-by-6 foot regulation strip is supplemented by slashing at a sword-wielding canvas dummy, while epee and foilmen glean their largest off-strip brushups by lunging at quarter-inch targets taped on the wall...