Word: sword
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...Joan Fontaine, Comedian Arnold Stang, Bandleader Orrin Tucker. All that was left of Burt Lancaster's $500,000 estate was a mailbox, an exercise bicycle and a smoldering set of barbells. Poking through his own $100,000 ruins, Joe E. Brown uncovered only some oddments and the dress sword of his son-an Army Air Force captain killed during World War II. Out of $500,000 worth of ashes composed in part of a Picasso etching, a $7,000 soup tureen and her private Tiffany's, Zsa Zsa Gabor salvaged little more than sketches of two former husbands...
...greater artist. But it was not in his nature to be a profound man: it was his impulses, not his thoughts, that were inspired. As his friend Wyndham Lewis said, he was "a great man of action into whose hands the fairies stuck a brush instead of a sword." Had he tried harder for greatness, he might well have lost his innocent freshness, and the gallery of portraits he left to the world would have died on their walls...
...Whoever will not be the hammer will in history be the anvil . . . The sword was always the precursor of the plow, and if one speaks at all of human rights, then war deserves in this single case the highest right . . . Every healthy folk sees in the acquisition of territory nothing sinful but something natural...
...Gaulle?and Paris?had arranged a hero's welcome. There were two dazzling escorts: first, 50 epauleted motorcycle police, then the plumed, sword-bearing cavalry of the Garde Républicaine. Gay banners of red, white and blue bedecked the streets; kiosks were dotted with magazine pictures of the visitors. The huge crowd?including some Latin Quarter students who hoisted a Harvard banner and others who roared out a football-chant countdown of "Kenne-un, Kenne-deux, Kenne-trois . . . Kenne-dix!"?warmly greeted Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy. After the trip. De Gaulle proudly told Kennedy: "You had more than...
...assure you my heart is as black as any man's"). Neither side was able to form a government, and last week the British tried a second round of elections. But the months of campaigning had fanned the smoldering racial hostility into flame. On election day, Arab sword flashed against African panga, leaving a score killed and more than 200 wounded...