Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rotor. McDonnell will not tell what its convertiplane will be like. Sky-side gossip believes that it will have a rotor driven by some sort of jet. One possibility is small ram-jets on each blade tip to push the rotor around. Another is a central turbojet engine blowing hot gases through hollow rotor blades. The gas will escape as jets from one side of each blade tip, making the rotor spin. When the aircraft has gained enough altitude, the central engine will be used to propel it forward, supported partly by the windmilling rotor, partly by small wings...
...Monday." Eberstadt whisked him to Hobe Sound, Fla. in an Air Force Constellation, where Bob Lovett took charge. "They're after me," Forrestal kept repeating. For a few days he swam and sunned himself and seemed to rally. Then one night he scratched his wrist with a razor blade. Psychiatrists ordered him to Bethesda Hospital and there, seven weeks later, he killed himself...
...World. In Manhattan, the Pal Blade Co. abandoned hope of organizing a female barbershop quartet after a city-wide canvass turned up only two lady barbers...
Repository. In London, doctors relieved a patient's persistent pains after removing from his stomach: a razor blade, a piece of porcelain, a steel file, a lady's hair clip, a double-six domino, a key, a knife handle, a pin, a pen, two stones, two nails, two broken knife blades, three matches and four pennies...
...tell any reporters about this! I want no publicity. It could ruin me! Please, no publicity."), then led the way to the barricaded bathroom, where police broke through the metal door and found Joyce. She was bleeding from both wrists which she had scratched with a double-edged razor blade. "Why did this have to happen to me?" Rose moaned. Then he remembered his wife, Eleanor Holm, onetime Olympic swimmer and Aquacade beauty. "Now is the time to have a wife," he muttered, and got on the telephone. Eleanor, a wife in need, arrived soon after Joyce had been taken...