Word: blade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This happens very rarely in the sport. The blade is inserted in the water at an angle, knifes very deep, and the handle driven by the momentum of the boat smashed the oarsman underneath the rib cage, catapulting...
Penn was having a timing problem -- the stroke skying his blade slightly at the catch and having trouble getting into the water. Harvard pulled out and took more water on Penn before the Quakers made their move...
...half hour after the battle began, an armored column only two miles away was dispatched to aid Suoi Tre's defenders. It was delayed by difficulty in crossing the steep-banked, muddy Suoi Samat River. Finally a crossing was filled in by a tank mounting a bulldozer blade. Just as the Americans at Suoi Tre were about to be overrun entirely, the delayed column of 80 armored personnel carriers and tanks rumbled through the trees. As they came, they crushed the massed Viet Cong beneath their treads and sprayed the enemy ranks with withering machine-gun fire. Hands popped...
...stalemated strike that has kept Toledo's two newspapers, the morning Times and the afternoon Blade, shut down for nearly five months, was finally settled last week. Not that the two sides had ever been all that far apart. The unions were asking for a two-year contract with a $24-a-week raise; the company offered a 28-month contract with a $20 raise...
...word halitosis (meaning bad breath in Latin), was so successful that he was able to sell out for $25 million in 1928, after which he spent four years, from 1931 to 1934, putting an edge on Gillette Co. (by introducing a one-piece razor and the blue blade) before retiring for good to sail his J-class sloops Yankee and Vanitie in numerous America's Cup trials without notable success; of arteriosclerosis; in Princeton...