Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Correction. In Toledo, the personal column of the Blade carried an announcement: "Mrs. Clifford T. Loveday of 1319 Jackson Street did not have [a] baby...
...sent another deletion around to newsmen. The word "now," he said, should be omitted from the sentence: "Apparently the President and I now agree on the necessity of getting rid of the Communists." It was just arrogant Joe's way of stressing the innuendo-and of sinking the blade a little deeper in the area between the shoulder blades...
...feet up. Built during Europe's Dark Ages, the temples were constructed of granite blocks weighing up to 50 tons each. No one knows how the blocks were heaved into place. Even more impressive is the fact that they were matched and fitted so precisely that a knife blade cannot be slipped between them...
Feierabend's sled was the next to last to start. Carefully, for luck, he touched each blade-then the Swiss were off. Using Feierabend's simple formula-"Hug the curves high and develop speed, like a dive bomber"-the Swiss sled was soon hitting 80 m.p.h. It spun through a series of labyrinth curves, down an ice-coated chute into famed Crystal Curve (where 24 sleds cracked up in 1950), then whipped across the finish line in a wild flurry of snow as the brakeman pulled to a stop. The announced time brought a roar from the crowd...
...Helicopter. The Army's first operational ramjet helicopters were delivered by Hiller Helicopters. Called the H-32, the craft is powered by small (12-lb.) ramjet engines mounted at the rotor blade tips. Mostly cabin, the new 'copter seats two to three persons, can carry more than 100% of its empty weight (500 lbs.), uses a pair of ski-shaped pipes for landing gear...