Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, over a formal cup of tea, he bade farewell to the Generalissimo. He declined the offer of a high Chinese decoration. He attended a final cocktail party with his staff, packed his dumbbells, captured samurai sword and traveling gear...
...Chapel. It was a military wedding, with the arch of steel furnished by Ray Kallaus, Warren Sheard, Kenneth Mills, and Dick Sharrock. Best man was Tom B. Robinson, and master of ceremonies Frank Samone at the reception held at the Fox and Hounds Club afterwards. Using Lieutenant Towne's sword on the wedding cake, Mrs. Shepherd served a punch, described by our Harry Magnuson as a hybrid whisky sour and champagne cocktail. Only Tom (T. S.) Smith kept his head after some ten or so toasts. A gala affair. Much happiness to them...
...Noose & Sword. Few people in the past have thought of the law-obsessed Germans as haunted by a terrorist secret society, older and more dreaded than the Sicilian Maffia. The origins of the Feme go back to the year 1200. Ostensibly an arm of the Holy Roman Empire, the Feme really stemmed from pagan traditions. Its extralegal courts were held under mystic linden trees, on open hilltops or beneath great oaks. The paraphernalia included a two-handed sword on which the members swore, and a noose of linden fibers for the victim. The sentence of its secret tribunals was always...
When last seen, the insurgents were still headed toward the Nicaraguan border, in frantic flight. General Noguera had jettisoned his hat, his sword, and his valise, which contained a bugle, a swatch of silk underwear, a bottle of perfume...
...Frenchmen! At the moment you read this message, I am no longer free. Although I could not be your sword, I tried at least to be your shield. My words and my acts have surprised you occasionally. But you may now know that they hurt me more than they hurt...