Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, enraged Italians promptly challenged him to duels. One challenge came from Lawyer Giorgio Mollica, 44, who has had five encounters with sword and saber on the field of honor, and wears the Italian Silver Medal for gallantry as an underground partisan behind the German lines...
...crimes trial in Tokyo, War Criminal Henry Pu-yi continued his testimony about his trials as No. 1 Japanese puppet (TIME, Aug. 19). In 1940, he reported, Emperor Hirohito had invited him to Tokyo, feted him, presented him with two gifts-a mirror and a sword (both sacred Shinto symbols),* and then sent him home to Shinto-ize Manchukuo. Said Pu-yi, who previously testified that the Japanese had murdered his wife: "It was my greatest humiliation...
...According to legend, the mirror represents the sun-goddess Amaterasu Omikami, ancestress of all Japanese emperors and the sword Japan's national strength...
Will perish by the sword...
...lands she had conquered Russia had brought not only the sword but the salvage crew and empty freight train. These instruments of conquest, like the sword, could summon up bitter resistance. Russia's eagerness to grab industrial equipment might get in the way of her more important program of political expansion. And Russia, wolfing her conquests in eastern Europe and Manchuria, hungered for still more that was outside the boardinghouse reach of the Red Army...