Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world fencing championships in Stockholm last week, Mogens Luchow, Denmark's world épée champion, met a tough Finnish army captain named Ilmari Vartia. Luchow parried Vartia's attack, thrust sharply and powerfully in riposte. The stiff, three-cornered blade plunged into the Finn's chest. "There is no danger," insisted Vartia as the blade was eased out of the wound, its protective tip still in place. A moment later, with blood staining his white fencer's jacket, Captain Vartia slipped lifeless to the floor...
...tormented and ridiculed, Guinea Pig Wozzeck begins to have hallucinations. When his girl is seduced by a strutting drum major, Wozzeck mutters confusedly about "sin"; he stabs Marie, throws the knife into a pond. Then, in fear of discovery, he wades into the pond to recover the shining blade, but slips and drowns. In the last scene, Wozzeck's child is left rocking back & forth on his hobby horse as his playmates run off to see the bodies...
Cambridge rowed almost perfectly. Its blade work was extraordinarily clean, raising hardly was splash, and never during the mile an three-quarter course was it seriously threatened...
...excuse to go neighboring after the beds are made, the baby is changed and the breakfast dishes washed. In the Pacific Northwest, youths make their first date with a new girl an invitation for coffee. "Gives the guy a chance to case the babe, cheap," explained a young blade from Walla Walla...
...merry men and get himself captured by that fine old favorite, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Saved from the scaffold by a pious knight, Andres gets shipped off to the Holy Land, where the air is so thick with plots and subterfuge it can be cut with a Damascus blade. And there, jam-bang in the middle of it all, awaiting her true knight, sits the "only one who mattered ... to me ... with a clear skin she had no need to paint, blue eyes shining with mischief, and bright hair, in which gold strove with auburn, rippling out from, under...