Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size of Texas. But in the recent monsoon season (November to March), for the first time in living memory, the rains did not come. Not only the northern pasture land, but the whole top half of Australia began to dry up. Within six months there was hardly a blade of grass in an area the size of Western Europe...
...comparative peace--when the government can afford to ignore production in the interests of suppressing inflation rigidly. But until then, the Hercules in the White House must slash away with whatever he has. A little good faith on the part of everyone concerned would sharpen his blade considerably...
...basic idea of the game is for the batsmen to defend their wickets. They use special bats with a long, flat, four-inch wide blade. The wicket, a device peculiar to cricket, is a lineal descendant of the ancient cottage wicket gate. In present form it consists of three thin poles or "stumps" spaced exactly three inches apart, with two little wood cylinders, or "bails" mounted...
During the siege of St. Marcel in the year 1212, says Frank Yerby in The Saracen Blade, a dead horse was mounted on a trenchbut. This instrument, a huge catapult, flung the horse clear over the city's parapets and dropped it in the public cistern...
This time Yerby's missile is dressed in full medieval caparison. The Saracen Blade tells the life story of a peasant who was born at the same time, same place as a prince. Pietro di Donati is therefore presumably controlled by the same stars as Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor. Author Yerby says, but hardly bothers to show, that their careers run as parallel as the two sides of a coin. Yet certainly Pietro must have had more girls; they fell for him in domino-rows...