Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politician, handshaker though he is in some circumstances, habitually dive for a fight when he could be assured of modest winnings by gentler means? Mrs. Blair believes that explanations begin at home; that the housewife has long acted by program, unhampered in her kingdom of accomplishment, while man as warrior, bread winner, or political warder has always faced competition, and, being long habituated, now creates that competition where it is found lacking. This is equivalent to warning feminists that they too will acquire the fight complex, if indeed they have not got with some quarters already. But the impression also...
Thursday. Upon this disheartening scene M. Briand, again Premier and Foreign Minister of France, burst like a tired but indefatigable warrior. Said he to the assembled Council...
...pacifier extraordinary and conciliator plenipotentiary to the rebellious and half-nomadic peoples whose sporadic attacks make it so difficult and expensive for France to administer Syria as a League of Nations mandate. Last week M. de Jouvenel announced that he had received overtures of peace from Sultan Atrash, the warrior chief of the extremely turbulent Jebel Druses. The French peace terms were promptly announced...
...earlier been ordered from the room, reappears and tells Siegmund to try and draw from a great oak the sword which was thrust in it by the Gods. Siegmund, with a mighty effort, draws the sword and thereby proves that he is Sieglinde's brother and the greatest warrior on earth...
...Yale threatened almost always; Harvard never, really, even once; but time and again, with his back to its wall and with the Bulldog's teeth almost on his throat, John Harvard yanked himself away and, by sheer fighting spirit, denied the New Haven warrior his due."--Melville E. Webb Jr., Boston Globe...