Word: bead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside, someone pushed a .30 caliber carbine through a rose trellis, drew a careful bead, put two shots into Bugsy's head, two into his body. A shot that went wild lodged in an oil painting of a nude woman, holding a wine glass...
...squint my eyes and I draw a bead on the door...
...heels and hairdo, looks a well-seasoned 30 even in kindly after-dinner light. But as she drifts regally between tight-packed tables, cased in her working harness (a high-necked, pink-&-blue job by Sophie of Saks, encrusted from top to toe with 20 pounds of bead-work), Evelyn suggests a youthful Magda Lupescu. And when she finds a suitable ringside male, she manages to convey, crooning to the poor Joe from a good six feet off, that she is twisting her fingers in his hair...
Merle Fainsed, chairman of the Government Department, was elected to bead the permanent nine-man committee. Other members of the faculty chosen as members were Seymour E. Harris '20. associate professor of Economics, Donald C. NcKay, chairman of the committee on Regional Studies, and Talcott Parsons, chairman of the Department of Social Relations...
...diving girls are again bringing up oysters. His 1,500 factory workers are deftly seeding them with a mother-of-pearl bead. Soon he expects to have 1,500,000 oysters working for him. By mass production he hopes within a few years to have prices down to suit the pockets of the masses. His eyes are on his No.1 market, the U.S. Says he: I like Americans best. They are straight-forward-like children...