Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Viking implements from a Norse cemetery near Dublin date from 850 to 1000 A.D. A set of scales, made of white metal and bronze, still retains its fragile supporting wires. A sword of the same period shows the name of its German maker on its handle...
...years between the two armistices France made a national shrine of that spot in the Forest of Compiègne. Trees were felled, the clearing carpeted with soft grass. A monument was erected-a sword thrust into a limp German eagle-and on the base of the monument was chiseled this inscription: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine. At the spot where the car had stood a great granite block bore the words: Here on the Eleventh of November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished...
Milquetoast by day and Superman at night, Tyrone Power outdoes Doug Fairbanks' earlier characterization of Diego Vega (alias Zorro), the Spanish Robin Hood of sixteenth century California. He rescues peasants, puts villains to the sword, and woos fair ladies with swashbuckling bravado. But porcine Engene Pallete steals acting honors as a he-man parish priest who crosses himself with one hand while wielding a wicked cudgel with a other. Basil Rathbone, who dictates to the local Franco, meets the just desserts of sneering down a long nose; and Linda Darnell drops in just long enough for two kisses...
...fears free discussion, but democracy thrives on it. The right of free speech should be sacred, not just a privilege which may be revoked if it is inconvenient or embarrassing. The maxim which Roosevelt took from Benjamin Franklin to illustrate the futility of a dictated peace is a sword which cuts both ways: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety...
...each tailor shop in town received orders for five or six small tail coats. At the reception, Colonel Itsuo Ishimoto of the mission drank more Bols gin than was good for him, became attracted by the long curved creese of a Javanese prince. The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer. Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about. A few days later he went to Bandung, collapsed with pernicious...