Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worth Doing ... In Gary, N.C., accused by sheriff's deputies of knifing an acquaintance during a fight over a woman, Early Montague shamefacedly explained: "Yeah, I cut him, but my big blade broke and I couldn't get the little blade open to cut some more...
...Magnus Andersen, 41, a stocky, white-haired Norwegian, stood by with a 12-ft. steam-driven saw. "The winch pulls head right dead in front of my saw," as Andersen describes his work. "I say 'Woh!' when the part I want for first cut is opposite my blade. It is just behind the middle of head. I turn down saw, zuff-zuff, then I stop saw. nip in quick and grab the gland-messy purple and hard like rock-on edge of brain. I grab, twist and pull like hell...
...Except for a lighthearted excursion into the Gillette Co. (where he invented a one-piece razor and the "Blue Blade" and paid off $20 million of the company's debts), Lambert has kept busy away from industry. He has learned to paint, to play politics (for Republican candidates), to write thrillers (Murder in Newport). As owner-skipper of the famed yachts Yankee, Vanitie and Atlantic, he has lost the last of his loneliness and shyness amid Morgans and Vanderbilts...
...that Dwight Eisenhower neither knows nor cares what goes on about him in Washington, that he "holds forth in the pulpit while his choirboys sneak around back alleys with sandbags." He described Richard Nixon's campaign role as that of a man who "has put away his switch blade and now assumes the aspect of an Eagle Scout...
Tech rooters knew it was more than luck last week when Fullback Dickie Mattison came through in the clutch with a fourth-quarter touchdown. Even when the going was rough, the worst worrywarts in the stands watched their coach calmly chewing on a blade of grass, relaxed and remembered their mildly irreverent motto: "In Dodd we trust...