Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salutes were exchanged as the Japanese Deputy Chief of Staff in China, Major General Takeo Imai, his gloved hand resting on the jeweled hilt of his oversize samurai sword, stepped stiffly into a Chinese Army jeep. His six aides and their luggage (briefcases, tins of tea, fruit juices, U.S. crabmeat) followed...
...Twenty thousand exhilarated Argentines massed in downtown Buenos Aires. There were shouts of "Death to Peron." One man fought a duel with an umbrella against a sword-wielding police officer. An unknown number of revolvers were more or less harmlessly discharged. Fifty persons were arrested. After three and one half years Argentina's state of siege had been lifted...
Yamamoto's riddled plane crashed in the jungle and burned. The Admiral's charred body was found crouched in a seat, both hands holding his sheathed sword between his knees - the same sword he intended to wear when he dictated the terms of peace in the White House...
...most memorable dinner featured a "flaming sword" course of lamb saddle impaled on a blazing sword; red, white & blue uniformed waitresses and a parade of waiters with ice cannons on trays, lit by flashlights and giant sparklers...
...smartly-cut lounge suit. Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana, Premier of the Punjab and spearhead of India's war effort, was dashing in a snow-white, plumed turban. Tara Singh, leader of the warlike Sikhs, was resplendent in a bright blue turban. He carried a kirpan (carved Sikh sword...