Word: sabered
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...appeared eager to impress on his guests that he was not just a saber rattler. To establish his superior knowledge of French letters, the ex-librarian told his stunned interlocutors that he had read "Diderot and all your Encyclopedists. I've even read that 18th century author who wrote that remarkable book, The Mechanical Man." None of Mao's guests knew what book he was talking about, and they were too polite to ask.* "Above all," Mao said, "I'm an admirer of Napoleon. There isn't one of his works I don't know...
Things look a bit brighter for the fencers. Strong performances were turned in this weekend by captain Tom Musliner and Dan Isaacson in the foil, and Bob Damos and Ed Garrick in the saber. All went undefeated in the victory over Bradford Durfee...
Captain Nicholas Spitzer will return to the lineup along with two other seniors in the epee. Dan Kirsch and Peter Busch will rejoin the foil, while Larry Butler returns to the saber...
...varsity fencing team evened its season record yesterday at 1-1 with a 18-9 win over Brandeis. The squad had dropped its first meet Saturday to N.Y.U. The Crimson took the saber competition 5 to 4, the foil 7 to 2, and the epee...
...Perhaps most remarkable about the Boer War was its length: for nearly three years the might of the British Empire was fought off by a sprinkling of fiercely independent Dutch settlers in the interior of South Africa. The conflict saw history's last cavalry charge with lance and saber, and the first wide-scale use of shrapnel, barbed wire, trenches, machine guns. Resembling the American Civil War in fact as well as in fiction-formula, the Boer War found the most daring soldiers and the most skillful generals on the losing side, while the victors had the brute mass...