Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decree came out. Florida Mobster Santo Trafficante Jr., who attended the famous gangland congress at Apalachin, N.Y. in November 1957, is still bossing the games at the Comodoro and the Sans Souci. He also keeps an eye on the Capri casino, where his associate is Mobster Charles ("The Blade") Tourine. Gambler Joseph Silesi. wanted for questioning after the New York barbershop murder of Top Hood Albert Anastasia, is casino manager at the Hilton. None of the mob makes a move without consulting Miami's Meyer Lansky, 57, gangland boss of the southeastern U.S. and board chairman of the Havana...
Lady L., by Romain Gary. A slim blade of a novel, light and flashing, which slips easily in and out of the worlds of Edwardian fashion, Paris slums and political anarchism, slicing surely at the solemn pretensions of those who love humanity more than they love their fellow...
...November, Olga's hospital friends reported her mysteriously missing. Frank was no help. Santa Barbara and Ventura police turned up the phony annulment and, with help from the FBI, followed a trail that led to two characters of Santa Barbara's seamy Haley Street area: blade-thin Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya, a 22-year-old convict (dope and street fighting). Both finally confessed that mother Duncan had hired them to kill Olga for $6,000. They led the cops to a shallow grave in a Ventura County ditch. There indeed lay the body of Frank Duncan...
...four boats showed precison blade-work and timing as they cut through the water chopped up by a strong tail wind...
...cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket and tickle my belly button"). The geek (lowest operator on the lot, a man who pretends to eat live animals) tore the head off a live chicken and ripped at the flesh with his teeth...