Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas day, 1917, the British Air Squadron thought it was doing well: it dropped one ton of bombs on Mannheim. Few days before, the Kaiser had roared in Berlin: "We must bring peace to the world by battering in with the iron fist and shining sword the doors of those who will not have peace...
Down the tracks occasionally come a few Jap prisoners. A litter-borne Japanese captain, with bloody shoulder wounds swathed in bandages and with his ornate ceremonial sword still buckled to his belt, jolts by. Americans and Australians look curiously, the natives with hatred, at the captured. Japs. Once an American sergeant gave a canteen of water to a native carrier to a take over to a scraggy Jap. The native looked contemptuously at the prisoner, threw the canteen on the ground and spat: "Me no give water Japanese...
...Western powers. In no time at all, Tenjo pumps an English missionary and a Scottish banker of everything they know, shocks the living daylights out of the missionary by unChristian, erotic behavior, hoodwinks a London shipping magnate, absorbs the lesson that finance and industry must be the sword of the new samurai. Small Tenjo also satisfies his hatred of white men-subtly by conquering a blonde and violently by beating up a big sailor...
...towel. I was overpowered with a great restlessness and a fear that it might not be my lot to realize Her in this life. I could not bear the separation from Her any longer. Life seemed to be not worth living. Suddenly my glance fell on the sword that was kept in the Mother's temple. I determined to put an end to my life. When I jumped up like a madman and seized it, suddenly the blessed Mother revealed Herself...
...With Sword and Prayer. The British carrier Illustrious had limped into Malta after a hot time in the narrow passage off Sicily. Stukas pounced on her, turned their destruction loose on harbor shipping and dockyards. German planes filled the blue Mediterranean sky. The sporting days of war were over...