Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Surely the wide publication of your article, "Race Question," has thrown President Bar nard upon his own sword! I commend you upon your selection of this case and your direct reporting of its facts. I am confident that the greater number of your readers will see in your statements a sickness...
...Kill. In the third scene the matador with his sword and muleta (a red cloth draped across a stick) goes forth to the kill. The art of this work consists of the number and variety of the passes which the matador executes, how close he can let the charging bull go past him, how well he can control the bull's charges...
...very end, the matador stands in profile, aiming his sword at the tired but still dangerous bull. As the charge comes, he leans over the horns, slips the sword into the small spot between the bull's shoulder blades. If the bull tosses its head, if the man's aim is not true, if he loses his nerve, he misses. The sword may be tossed in the air, perhaps bent from the force of the bull's charge. Then the matador must take another sword and steel himself to try again. But if his thrust succeeds...
Across the bleak barrens of prewar eastern Poland armies surged last week, as they have for 1,000 years. The stolid peasants who saw the Red Army drive bewildered Germans back are descendants of patient men who have straightened up to watch fire & sword swoop by for 30 generations...
...bravely with grenades and rifles. One Chinese soldier penetrated a Jap dugout and, pulling the pin in his grenade, blew himself and three Japs to kingdom come. In four days the Chinese killed an estimated 300 Japs, drove the rest south. Jubilant Chinese presented Stilwell with a captured Samurai sword. Jubilant Stilwell returned to India...