Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harmon issues a statement placing responsibility on the local government, though he knows it will mean instant dismissal from the mission. He remembers Hidalgo's words: "In bullfighting, William, they have a marvelous phrase for describing the climax of the ceremony-that ultimate moment of reality when the sword strikes the bull. 'La hora de verdad-the hour of truth.' A man must not waste away into nothing, William; a man must find his hour of truth." Having faced his hour, Harmon now feels that he can return to his family and find his place...
...main roles, by deeply inbred Central European royalty. Rudolph's mother's cousin and his dearest friend was the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, who drowned himself. Another dear cousin was an Archduke Otto who once scandalized a fashionable restaurant by turning up dressed only in a sword and the necklace of the Order of the Golden Fleece...
...Juan is to save pretty Queen Margaret (Viveca Lindfors) and her slightly addled king (Romney Brent) from the plots of an evil Duke de Lorca. Errol manages it with the help of nothing more than fire, sword, galloping horses, conspiring friends, and a few scattered incidents when he is called upon to prove that his strength is as the strength of ten because his heart is afire with love for the queen. No question of credibility is really involved in all this, since the story at no time resembles any situation ever likely to have been faced by any human...
...lifting a glass of tea, called out: "May Allah grant that the end of the war come before my next glass of tea!" Near the Jaffa Gate, unarmed Legionnaires sat dangling their legs over the wall of the Old City. In the streets below, Arab soldiers were dancing, without swords, a Bedouin sword dance. Jewish and Arab civilians even staged a football match. The Israeli team...
Westhrin and Ray Pierce, who also rates high on the saber ladder, are sophomores. In the other weapons, '51 doesn't do so well and the old-timers take over. Captain John Ager is top man in epee, a three-sided sword with a cup-shaped hilt, Giles Constable and Masterson fill up the top three, and may be the group to face Bowdoin in the first game this February...