Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Senator defined "the most dangerous of issues" which divides the Big Three-"the almighty Bomb [held] like a Damoclean sword over the heads of Russia and the rest of the world." His novel proposal: let the U.S., Canada and Britain destroy every atom bomb, smash every facility for making another. "Then we could go into the court of this conference with the cleanest of hands...
...going to put in a plea for the late starters. . . . The university education may be even better appreciated by those in the early twenties than by those in the late teens." Churchill urged veterans, whose educations were "slashed across by [war's] flaming sword," to put his theory to "a practical and a supreme application...
...group of soldiers come along the road and their officer notices that we speak a foreign language. He at once draws his sword, screams at us, and threatens to cut us down. Father Laures Jr. seizes his arm and explains that we are German. He thought that we might well be Americans who had parachuted down. Rumors of parachutists are being bandied about the city...
...none other on earth than to you . . . who are hardened to the present day and do not cease to rage against the Holy Gospel, and in your secular government do nothing else than tax and extort . . . until the poor and common man can no longer endure it. The sword is hanging over your heads, and yet you think that your seat in the saddle is secured. Such obdurate foolhardiness will cost you your neck. You must change and obey the Word of God. And if you do not do it willingly and friendly, you will be forced...
Divorced. James Vincent Sheean, 46, best-selling journalistic bird of passage (Personal History, Not Peace But A Sword) ; by beauteous Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean, 31, youngest daughter of oldtime actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson; after ten years of marriage, two daughters; in Reno...