Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion he was merry: downing champagne, toasting Roosevelt and Churchill, charging around the dinner table to touch glasses with one and all. But Stalin showed real emotion only once: when Churchill presented the Stalingrad sword (sent as a gift from King George VI "to the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad"). Stalin shivered almost imperceptibly, raised the sword to his lips and kissed the scabbard (see cut). President Roosevelt watched, deeply impressed. Others thought they saw "a little lump clumping in his throat." Almost inaudibly, Stalin thanked Churchill and the British...
Outflanked and defeated, Henry Morgenthau nevertheless took his dress sword in hand and attacked head on. Without even a microscopic chance of success, he recited before the Senate's Finance Committee this week, his plea for a whopping tax measure. Said Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul: "It seems utterly unreasonable to erect a mountain of complexity for such a molehill of revenue...
Arrogant Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, who captured Kiev in 1941, was not its first alien invader. For eleven centuries, men of the sword-Variags and Khazars, Tatars, Lithuanians and Poles -ravished the beautiful city. The proud conquerors became dust; Kiev, with its seven rolling hills, its glistening church domes, its banks towering above the Dnieper, survived. It sprawled on the border between the rich, black-soiled south and the forested north, and their wealth was the plasma which always revived...
...cruel eyes and thin mustache. The prewar Government, he said, was corrupt and weak-stomached ("Always doddering ... it has no roots in the soil and is ... like a cut flower in a vase"), and it was up to Nakano to return Japan to the path of greatness. In the sword he saw the surest physician for Japan's ailments; in Hitler and Mussolini he saw proof that his prescription was right...
George VI of England gave "the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad" a four-foot, two-handed sword with a double-edged blade, a chased silver crosspiece, a grip wrapped in 18-carat gold wire, a pommel of rock crystal...