Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stupid he is then, but obviously a kindly, well-meaning old bumbler, spreading joy as best he knows how. Yet only last week, during a jurisdictional dispute between two labor unions in Toledo, Ohio, Claus was incarcerated in jail on the basis of his "previous criminal record" (The Toledo Blade, December 9). This would appear to be damning, but can we not say charitably in this season of love that the previous record of fault was a wild oat carelessly sown and repented? After all, how many beneficent builders of the nation's libraries, hospitals, and universities have buried their...
Added Lord Chief Justice Goddard: "The facility with which a razor blade can be hidden in the hand and used with the most horrible effect has to be seen to be believed. When someone lets a cosh fall on a bench in court ... it makes one shudder to think of the effect of it on a human head." A longtime believer in corporal punishment, Judge Goddard asked for the return of the birch, which, when "laid on by a chief warder who knew his business, not only gave them a taste of something unpleasant, but led to considerable ridicule." Tory...
Between bouts, Bowie is pictured as a gay blade with the girls. He dallies with scheming Creole Belle Virginia Mayo. But in the end he spurns her with an admonition ("No woman is worth the lives of eight men"), and goes off with beautiful, gentle Phyllis Kirk, daughter of the vice-governor of Texas. Bird fanciers may be interested to note that the picture depicts noted Ornithologist James Audubon (George Voskovec) as one of Bowie's conversational sparring partners...
...Culver City, Calif., mechanics wheeled out the world's largest known helicopter for its first test flight last week. As the 125-ft.-long rotor blade began to twirl, the monster whirlybird rose aloft and flew around the field at a height of about 40 feet for 8.9 minutes. The XH-17, built for the Air Force by Planemaker Howard Hughes, is designed to lift for short distances loads of several tons (e.g., artillery, bridge sections, tanks and trucks) by straddling them like a lumber carrier. Power is provided by two General Electric turbojet engines astride the fuselage plus...
...Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq), but in the minds of the 4,000,000 fierce Kurdish tribesmen who live there, it is one country. It lies like a great, clumsy sickle over the Middle East, the handle anchored in the mountains near the Persian Gulf, the top of the blade resting in Russia and the cutting edge facing the oil fields and fertile valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris. U.S. military men rate Kurdistan important for three reasons...