Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors nodded. Janet Dulles moved quietly to the head of the bed and looked down at her husband's face. Nobody said a word. And in all the lands of the globe where liberty and independence are prized, the free and the thoughtful mourned the tough old warrior who had fought their fight with rare purpose, skill and dedication...
Speaking without notes, Lewis roared for three hours. Here was the same spavined warrior who had learned tactics at the knee of Sam Gompers, who had campaigned fervently for, then violently against Franklin Roosevelt, had regularly undermined the economy with his coal strikes (statisticians blame his miners for 25% of all workdays lost by strikes in the 22 years before 1949). Here was the rebel who had founded the C.I.O., left it, rejoined the A.F.L., left it ("TheA.F.L. has no head; its neck just growed and haired over"). There were flashes of the old defiant Lewis who had traded...
King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. A rousing account of nine-lived old Warrior-King Mithradates, who vowed to unbuild Rome if it took all his days...
Whatever the quality of Mithradates' armies, he himself was such a tough old warrior that, at the age of 68, he still could throw a javelin as well as any of his soldiers and produce from his numerous harem an annual crop of royal children. Defeat only seemed to stimulate his ambition, and in 64 B.C. he was planning to realize a stupendous fantasy-an invasion of Italy from the north, while the main Roman army hunted him in the east...
...upper figures wears a sheepdog's collar and carries a peasant's staff-signs of protection for the flock. And the old man's leer may be hateful or tearful, but his gentle hand reaches for Christ's in a gesture of sympathy. The ironclad warrior, who is about to jam the huge prongs upon Christ's head, seems caught up and driven by some outward imperative of duty even as his lips tighten in remorse. The bulldog-faced assailant who tears at Christ's robe might also be gesturing in supplication. The German...