Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jampacked Plaza de Toros at Tampico, Mexico, 5,000 aficionados sat stock-still one afternoon last week. In the centre of the ring, glistening in the sunlight, a wisp of a girl stood directly in the path of a charging bull, heels together, her sword poised ready for the kill. With one businesslike thrust over his horns and between the shoulder blades, the bull crumpled to the sand, shuddered, lay dead...
...take a sword an' dror...
...Damoclean dagger rather than sword are the $1,420,000,000 worth of U. S. stocks and bonds held by Allied investors. Their value is less than 2% of that of all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange. But under the imminent and certain threat of World War II, the hair that held this dagger over U. S. securities markets looked scarily tenuous to market men. If French and British investors had sold their holdings in a panicky rush for dollars, the dagger would have dropped on an already queasy market, drawn real blood...
Captain Al Labastie is the number one man in the foil. Like Wright, he has a great deal of natural ability, although he never had a sword in his hand before his Freshman year. His style is characterized by uncommon speed and aggressiveness and by a fast, far-reaching lunge. His vigorous parries make him well-nigh invulnerable against the average opposition, and his attacks are always well-planned. It was something of a surprise when Al did not win the individual foil championship in the gruelling two-day Intercollegiate last year. Close behind him in the foil is Crannie...
Nevertheless "a sword of Damocles," as the Tokyo Asahi said, "was raised over Japan's head." The country reacted, as always under pressure, with threats and recriminations. Commander Masaharu Homma of the Tientsin Garrison, an old hand at talking out of turn, warned that the Japanese Army might have to "reconsider appropriate steps." Japan's Army spokesman told a fantastic cock-&-buller about a Chinese plot against the life of U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson. The Japanese press said it was time to stop "courting favor" with the U. S. In private, statesmen loudly complained...