Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval Officer's Sword, awarded to a Senior "in recognition of academic standing, officer-like qualities, and an outstanding, performance as a member of the Naval ROTC at Harvard College" will be presented to William Wessolhoeft '42 of Boston, who received his commission together with his fellows in ceremonles at noon today in the Fogg Art Museum...
Francis B. Sayre, High Commissioner to the Philippines, having like MacArthur escaped from Bataan, came home to the U.S. bearing a four-foot sword, a gift for the President from General MacArthur-a trophy taken from a Japanese general killed on the field of battle...
...Germany's game. There was no basis in fact for the impression that Adolf Hitler had ordered, or blackmailed, or even wheedled Japan into its southward drive for riches. Japan wanted to be rich. Japan had begun the process of solving problems with the sharp edge of a sword back in 1931, two years before Hitler came to power. Japan is not Germany's tool...
...world, had modeled their fighting forces on the French. But France's humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War eventually turned the Japanese genius for emulation toward Germany. In 1885 a student of Marshal von Moltke, Major Meckel, went to Japan with a military mission to teach the sword swingers the smell of powder...
...rivals plotted against him. One night, while Bolivar was sleeping, Manuela heard steps, barking dogs, "the thud of a body in the street," shouts of "Death to the tyrant!" She persuaded the Liberator to jump out the window. When the assassins broke in, she met them with a drawn sword, sent them in the wrong direction. Said Bolivar: "Today you have become the Libertadora of the Libertador...