Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From an article on "The Fetish of Atomic Secrecy," by Paul Block Jr., publisher of the Toledo Blade, in the August Harper's: "But if men within the atomic program . . . are trying to hurdle the secrecy wall in this manner and dump some of their problems in the public's lap, they are merely taking a leaf from the military's book...
...sometimes only two oils a year. There is never enough for a show, because his admirers buy them immediately for prices up to $3,000. But the high prices don't seem to interest Kokoschka. "With me," he says, "these are not wares. They are my life. A blade of grass is more interesting than the president of a republic if you put your heart into...
...watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution to the show: a porcelain urinal over the doorway decorated with a sprig of mistletoe...
...Have Quiet." The Brewerytowners were still restive, but "Enforcer" Matyasevic took care of that: during one argument, he shot a Brewerytowner in the leg to cool him off and then accommodatingly dug out the slug with a razor blade. After that, the gang got down to more serious work. Last week five of them drove to a taproom in a stolen sedan. "Blackie" Battles, the lad who had been shot by the enforcer, stood outside with a high-powered rifle. One waited in the car, and the rest walked inside holding .32-cal. pistols...
...hard to cut, but every time I chopped through a tendon I felt a jerk in the nerves of my neck. The cutting was made easier by the fact that bones in the arm were broken through. I just followed the line of the break with the blade of my knife...