Word: dagger
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wild tribesmen Shamyl ruled lived by the shashka (saber) and kindjal (long dagger). "They sabre each other in the way of friendship," wrote the Russian Poet Lermontov, who, like Pushkin, served in the Caucasus and died in a duel there...
...human questions with an excitement that indicates that there exists in Russia today a black market in religious ideas. He raises unanswerable questions-including some that are universal and unanswered on either side of the Iron Curtain. His modest hero Rabinovich at the labor camp has dug up a dagger with a handle shaped like a crucifix. "How do you like that?" he asks. "A nice place they found for God-the handle of a deadly weapon. Are you going to deny it? God was the end and they turned him into the means-a handle. And the dagger...
...Gardner fall into intimate clutch during one of the first air raids of the Spanish Civil War. That very morning Bogarde had left the church because its hierarchy sympathized with Francisco Franco's rebels. But after the raid, in the kind of irony that cuts like a rubber dagger, he is hunted down by a mob of enraged Loyalists who have convinced themselves that the city's priests signaled enemy planes from the cathedral tower. (The Loyalists are represented as Communistic priest-murderers, and Franco's troops as mostly good joes...
...Brain. Prime Minister Castro, at 33, is the heart, soul, voice and bearded visage of present-day Cuba. His younger brother, Armed Forces Chief Raul Castro, 29, is the fist that holds the revolution's dagger. National Bank President Che Guevara, 32, is the brain. It is he who is most responsible for driving Cuba sharply left, away from the U.S. that he despises and into a volunteered alliance with Russia...
...separately enclosed by a steel fence, and his paneled, second-floor office contains only one symbol of his profession: a box of cigars labeled Geheimdienst (Secret Service). (In Washington, Allen Dulles also keeps a gag prop on his desk-a plaster statuette of a man with a cloak and dagger...