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...Talal $1,400,000 of jewels and household effects belonging to the Hashemites. Talal went on the radio to thank the King for his "real hospitality." As Talal left for home, Ibn Saud, who had journeyed out to the airport to see him off, gave the younger King a sword encrusted with precious stones...
...wife wants him to quit and rest, plain Mr. Attlee has a big job looming ahead of him. Gone is the party's evangelical zeal of 1945, when Socialists sang Blake's great hymn, and meant it: "I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem/In England's green and pleasant land...
...village (which includes the parishes of Offord Cluny and Offord Darcy) has 536 inhabitants, 129 cats, 70 dogs, 275 bicycles, 46 motorcars, 167 radios and 17 TV sets. It has lived through the threat of the Armada, when 15 stalwart citizens went off to war bearing pike, arquebus and sword. The village lost one man during the Boer War, 20 in World War I, four in World...
Charles's work was rough. He had only a big broadax to work with, and often, when his clients lacked the grace to hold still, his mighty swings resulted in bloody mutilation only. Charles would seize his sword then, and stab with a will until the job was done. In payment he got a fixed fee for each execution and the right to draw on the public markets at will for food for himself, his family and two horses...
...loyal to the Spanish king. A royalist monk shouts to the dazed people of Caracas that the cause of their misfortune stands before them: Bolivar. The crowd begins to seethe menacingly. Without a word, Bolivar strides up to the monk and strikes him down with the flat of his sword. The crowd melts away...