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...actual fights are surprisingly short but exceedingly bloody. Owners put the cocks in a foul and angry mood by restraining them and having other chickemns peck at them. Then the owners unsheath the fighters' swords, put them into the ring, and the fight til the death begins...

Author: By Eugene L. Jhong, | Title: Cock-Fighting in the Philippines | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

When the speech is over and the caravan heads out of town, Maldonado and Carpio are moved into the two bulletproof vans, and the volunteers who ride shotgun unsheath their weapons. For the next hour, the campaigners drive watchfully through the narrow roads and mountain passes at twilight until, it seems, the danger is gone. On the way back to the capital, Maldonado and his men are exhausted, caked with the day's dirt. "We go with our language of moderation, peace, everything, trusting justice rather than strength," says the candidate. "I know it's difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: Caught in the Crossfire | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...Saturday, Yale's full strike force will arrive in Cambridge replete with sabres, epees, and various foreign objects. A veritable battalion of swordsmen and swordswomen will engage in Ivy combat at the IAB beginning Saturday afternoon. Both the women's varsity and JV teams will unsheath their weapons for 1 p.m. skirmishes. Reinforcements will be called to the scene of action at 2 when the varsity and JV men's teams clash with the Bulldogs...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: On the Occasion of the New Haven Invasion | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...banalities of her script. CBS's The Wild, Wild West and Ulysses S. Grant ("The nation is in a pot of trouble, boy") enlist Major James West as a post-Civil War Bondsman. He is outfitted with his own railroad car replete with pool table, cues that unsheath to become sabers, billiard balls that detonate as hand grenades. But such gimmickery is simply cumbersome. Except for President Grant, who needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Overstuffed Tube | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...second shot, only to draw the leopard's attack on himself with such force that he was knocked down, leopard's teeth sunk in his shoulder. The two bearers were helpless from their wounds, the rest of the party at a distance. But White managed to unsheath his hunting-knife and sink it in the beast's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hunting | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

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