Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best uniform and sword! Have the horses put to in my chariot!" bellowed Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower when the Admiralty summoned him back from shore leave. "It will take me away from you," he told his gorgeous wife Barbara (the future Duke of Wellington's sister). "Darling," she answered, "six months of the kind of happiness you have given me is more than any woman deserves." A few days later, Sir Horatio, flying a commodore's pendant, was beat ing up the Channel in the 900-man ship of the line Nonsuch, followed by two sloops, two bomb...
...Navy!" Despite all this, the world-according-to-Forester would be different today if Hornblower had not suddenly debarked at the port of Riga and, waving his zoo-guinea gold-hilted sword, led a "flank attack [that] thwarted Bonaparte's schemes to conquer the world." "To Commodore Sir Horatio Hornblower and the British Navy!" cried the Tsar, raising a noggin of Admiralty rum. "To the Navy," responded Hornblower, "guardian of the liberties of the world...
...General of the Army MacArthur will have a field of immense scope for his strategic and tactical brilliance. And millions of his fellow-countrymen who know little of the art of war would be well pleased to see him take, as symbol of full surrender, the Mikado's sword...
...more entomologists study DDT, the new wonder insecticide, the more convinced they are that it may be a two-edged sword that harms as well as helps. To find out, they have lately taken to spraying entire islands and other large areas with it. The city of Toronto has now given a detailed report on one such test...
...both his arms tattooed : a woman on the right, and an unsheathed sword on the left, with the legend, "Death before Dishonor." Back in Raritan, his mother was surprised one day when she got a beautiful black silk kimono from a Filipino girl. Mrs. Basilone already had two daughters-in-law and she now thought she would soon have a third...