Word: swordsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calhoun Colleges gave a very entertaining, if not varsity-like, football performance this morning on the wide green between the Colleges. Not content with the orthodox football uniforms, these players adorned themselves in bright pajamas, bermuda shorts, sweat pants, stocking hats. At half-time a band, led by a swordsman paraded out for a small show. No one much cared but the score at the half...
...military course at Moscow's Frunze Academy, he grabbed it. Chief of Staff Boris Shaposhnikov thought him "somewhat slow," but sent him off to Germany to study under General von Seeckt. The black-haired young Russian was a strange figure among the shaven-headed, monocled Prussians, but Swordsman Zhukov could outfence any of them, as he later could outfence any Russian officer who served with him. From Von Seeckt, chief theorist of the new German army that was already forming, Zhukov learned the strategy and tactics of the "breakthrough...
...emperor's true son and heir? The baron will find out-or will he? Boinnng! A knife sprouts in a post beside his head. Swish! Thirty assassins, black-robed like torturers in medieval Europe, jump out of the rhododendrons at him. Snick-snack! The baron, an ineffable swordsman, puts them easily to flight. But alas, the rogues make off with the Lady Kikuji (Keiko Kishi), the baron's sister, and hold her in the Nipponese equivalent of durance vile (same thing, except that the jailer's whip is made of bamboo). In brief, Director Tatsuo Osone...
...titles Perón's followers bestow on him is "World's No. 1 Sportsman"-which in sports-worshiping Argentina is rather more eulogistic than calling him, say, "World's No. 1 Statesman." In his younger days Perón was a boxer, skier, crack shot, swordsman, horseman, speedboater and racing-car driver. But in recent years motorcycling has become the aging (59) No. 1 sportsman's No. 1 sport. He often takes a spin on the grounds of his suburban estate or his downtown presidential residence, and now and then he rides through the city...
...spirits. But after watching a few minutes he exclaimed to the group, "Excellent, excellent, no worry here," and strode from the room. But perhaps the starry-eyed freshmen drawn to fencing by Hollywood pirate movies paid a greater compliment to Marion when he confided in a fellow swordsman, "He's better than Errol Flynn...