Word: sword
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entree, or a book, or a building like Blenheim Palace, which took the Duke of Marlborough's architects and laborers 15 years to construct. In the process, the design can mellow and marinate. Indeed, hurry can be the assassin of elegance. As T.H. White, author of Sword in the Stone, once wrote, time "is not meant to be devoured in an hour or a day, but to be consumed delicately and gradually and without haste." In other words, pace Lord Chesterfield, what you don't necessarily have to do today, by all means put Off until tomorrow...
Nothing could be more misleading. Henning is a master illusionist. Traditionally, he saws a woman in half, and the boxed halves are trolleyed on-and offstage during a good part of the evening. A man has a sword thrust through his middle. A woman is burned to a smoldering crisp. Instantaneously, a live dove becomes a live rabbit. At the whisk of a drape, a girl in a cage is transformed into a young cougar...
...point is can we survive it? Can Haldeman and Ehrlichman survive it? The point that I ... I know that as far as you're concerned, you'll go out and throw yourselves on a damned sword ... Damn it, you're the two most valuable members on the staff. I know that...
...National Republican Guard, a paramilitary police force. In 1968 he was sent back to Africa as commander in chief and military governor of the territory of Portuguese Guinea, where he served until he returned to Lisbon last summer to receive the Order of the Tower and the Sword with Palm, Portugal's highest military honor, and to become deputy chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, a post set up specially...
...ever glad Mr. Reasoner and Mrs. Luce pinned your ears back. Indeed your pen is mightier than the sword-and as venomous as a snake...