Word: blade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiny jet engines on the tips of the two rotor blades power the midget machine. The pilot-passenger carries twin tanks for the liquid propane fuel on his back, maneuvers by hand-held throttle and blade-pitch controls. One de luxe feature: pushbutton starting fired by three flashlight batteries. Gluhareff so far has tested his helicopter in tethered flight, estimates that when he tries free flight he will soar to 4,500 feet, buzz along at 50 m.p.h., have a cruising range of 25 miles, float lightly to earth if the engines conk...
...charged with juvenile delinquency. One of these, a 14-year-old boy known to his pals as "The Little King," proudly bragged to detectives that he plunged his knife deep into Farmer's back "to get the feeling of a knife going through bone." As he withdrew his blade, he told the dying boy: "Thanks...
...simultaneously. The duelling should be done strictly in time with the flowing cadences of the verse. But here there are so many pauses between phrases and lines that the stunning effect of the tour de force is lost; the tongue and the wit defer to the foot and the blade...
...materials were certainly simple enough-a piece of baling wire, a razor blade, some copper foil. But, explained a distinguished M.I.T. physicist one day last week, they were just about all that any schoolboy would need to build himself a device that could measure the amount of silver deposited in electroplating. In another room in M.I.T.'s sprawling Building 2, a colleague toyed with a tray of marbles to demonstrate molecular action. Near by, another scientist was making a telescope out of cheap lenses, curtain rings, a cardboard cylinder, and some pieces of hose from a truck radiator...
...wonder whether I am doing good or not. Then I comfort myself with the thought that Gillette was a man who made a wonderful safety razor that enabled one to shave without cutting one's throat. It is not Mr. Gillette's fault if people take the blade out of the razor and cut their wrists with...