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...Risingh who was in command of the Swedes. Irving goes on to describe how the battle for possession of the Swedish fort waxed so warm that the two generals met face to face in deadly combat. He states that the Swede struck the Dutchman over the head with his sword and that, "the good Peter reeled with the blow . . . and missing his footing, by reason of his wooden leg, down he came on his seat of honor with a crash which shook the surrounding hills, and might have wrecked his frame, had he not been received into a cushion softer...
...Bertie was Britain's other ally, King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia, "a hairy man, of a virile physique, an amorous nature, and an indiscriminate affability." Bertie was much taken with him too, "chiefly because of his boast that he could decapitate an ox with one blow of his sword...
...supplies from the U.S. and The Netherlands Indies has at a stroke lost her 31,000,000 to 33,000,000 of the 45,000,000 barrels she uses each year. Her reserves, if any, are relatively small, her actual and potential domestic production insufficient. Unless Japan's sword-rattlers want to give up the profession of war entirely, they must soon fight, not for the Emperor or Co-Prosperity, but simply and inevitably...
...renovated Supreme Court he met and worsted some of the country's highest-priced legal talent, became a bright sharp sword in the New Deal. He fought for the Government's right to fix wages for workmen on Government contracts, fought for the wages and hours law. He defended the right of the Government to intervene in bankruptcy proceedings. He argued for the spread of Federal control over the nation's waterways. In all his earnest advocacy of these New Deal measures he was upheld...
...over prices he had when he entered: none at all except those he could exercise through OPM's priorities section. But prices were still shooting up and it was still his job to keep them down. He was supposed to slay the dragon of inflation with a rubber sword...