Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chorused "Muito bem-hear, hear," Brazilian Deputy Plinio Barreto boomed: "For reasons of demagoguery, electoral expediency or exhibitionism, Senator Gillette has roused an anti-Brazilian movement in the U.S." A Nicaraguan cartoonist drew Senator Gillette stripping Central America's coffee trees to their roots with a thin, blue blade...
...composer who can lure Manhattan critics into taking a 30-minute train ride to the suburbs to hear a piece of music must have something on the ball. Blade-thin, Manhattan-born Norman Dello Joio apparently is one composer who has. When New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College put on his first opera last week, Manhattan critics and admirers traveled right out to Bronxville to hear...
Wasp Waists. Searching for a prop that could be used efficiently above 450 m.p.h., Hamilton's engineers, led by Chief Aero-dynamicist George Rosen, tried all sorts of shapes. One design, intended to sidestep shock waves, had curved blades, quite like the swept-back wings of a fast modern fighter. Another had a blade with a pinched-in "waist." Some blades were short and broad so that they could spin rapidly without nearing sonic speed. All these designs proved unsatisfactory...
Hamilton's prop men designed a thin, knife-edged blade of conventional, square-tipped shape that would move fast enough all along its length to leave shock waves behind. This did the trick. Tested in a wind tunnel, a scale model of the new propeller proved to be 80% efficient at 600 m.p.h. No shock waves roiled the air-flow over its smooth surfaces. Shock waves are not quick enough...
...Uline Arena, Button put on a remarkable exhibition of his own improvised "free" skating. He executed three consecutive spinning loops in the air in one figure, and a flying leap in another. In this jump he does the splits six feet off the ice, touching his outstretched skate-blade ends with his hands...