Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army headquarters in Tokyo put the souvenir business on a bargain-basement basis last week. In the lobby of the Dai Iti Hotel was a conspicuous sign: "War trophies will, be issued here-men must be assigned to GHQ-one sword per man." Somebody with a high regard for accuracy had crossed out the words "men" and had substituted "officers...
Majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels trampled and jostled each other to get places in line. Japanese boys seemed to enjoy the spectacle as they opened packing cases of field sabers, the poor man's samurai sword, and stacked them for the issuing officers. Lieutenant colonels and colonels got an extra dividend: a pair of binoculars...
...underpinning its energetic diplomacy with the sword, and the Communists were powerless to prevent...
...turbulence of toppling cabinets, armed revolt and panic which rocked Buenos Aires and the Argentine nation, three facts emerged: 1) Colonel Juan Domingo Perón was out cold; 2) General Eduardo Avalos, new Minister of War, held the sword-hand; 3) democratic Argentines, united in a common front, were in no mood to accept anything less than the full restoration of constitutional government...
...simply: "It is right there in the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not kill." But Doss did not object to serving as an Army Medical Corpsman. When he was sent overseas he asked for assignments in the front lines. He felt that God would not let him perish by the sword if he did not live by the sword, and he had a deep sense of duty to his fellowman...