Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pirates. Bernard Mannes Baruch was born in South Carolina, of aristocratic, but not wealthy, Spanish-Portuguese-Jewish stock. His father was a Confederate surgeon in the Civil War: his middle name is in honor of a friend who gave his father a uniform and a sword...
...English sword maker agreed to make the mail. In World War I he had developed a suit of light strips of flexible steel, held together and covered by canvas. Before designing the airman's armor, movements of a bomber crew at 20,000 feet were studied. The suit was designed for complete freedom of action, can be shed fast for a quick bailout...
...govern many, hundreds of millions work in darkness to support a few thousands in ease . . . and the greater part of the human race has to live in filth and starvation to maintain an artificial system of profit." Sheean promised. The result was Personal History and Not Peace but a Sword (TIME, July 31, 1939), and now Between the Thunder...
FIRST HARVEST - Vladimir Pozner -Viking ($2.50). Setting of this novel, by the French author of The Edge of the Sword, is a village on the northern coast of Occupied France. Blonde, 16-year-old Yvonne, a French girl who devoutly believes in truth, comes face to face with the awful consequences of honest dealings with the enemy. Rich in character studies of Nazi soldiers, Gestapo functionaries, French villagers, First Harvest is a dismal, moral tale of average literary merit...
Despite his thoroughness, Schorr did not get through his farewell performance without a slip. The spear he carried fell apart in his hands several minutes before Melchior was to sever it with a blow of Siegfried's sword. But Friedrich Schorr overrode this mishap. Said he: "I am really very happy. I consider it a great blessing to be able to retire of my own accord...