Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, Brazil's Ambassador Carlos Martins, accompanied by his sculptress wife, Maria, and their handsome, 19-year-old daughter Nora. Portly Ambassador Martins bore up bravely in tight-fitting full-dress uniform of dark green, covered with gold-leaf embroidery, sword and medals. Said he: "One more pound and I have to get a new uniform...
...picture of the Holy Prophet is absolutely repugnant and extremely abhorrent to the Moslems. But the slanderous picture which has appeared in your magazine depicts ideas that have no foundation in Moslem history, and the inscription below is simply exasperating. . . . Mohamed's (may peace be on him) sword never took the life of a single human being. He preached peace...
...General Dwight D. Eisenhower from King Frederik of Denmark went a bejeweled medal, the country's highest decoration, seldom given to anyone but princes: the Order of the Knight of the Elephant; from Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, a bejeweled, gold-sheathed sword whose blade bore the engraved leg end: ". . . in grateful memory of the glorious liberation...
...denied labor the right to bargain collectively, had not broken its big sword, the strike, and had not deprived it of minimum wages. The A.F.L.'s expensive attempt to brand it a "slave labor law" had fallen dismally flat. The average citizen simply looked at U.S. wage rates* and asked: "Where are the slaves...
...gathered nicknames-the Little Flower, Butch, The Hat, the Little King. He posed for photographs in gas masks, baseball caps, catcher's masks, chef's caps and fireman's hats. During campaign speeches, he used his horn-rimmed spectacles as sword, scepter and backscratcher; he spat on imaginary apples, kicked imaginary footballs and screeched vulgarly at his enemies. He started a weekly radio program, on which he told housewives how to cook spaghetti, and, during the 1945 newspaper strike, read comics to their offspring...