Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mental recovery was swift. He told his first visitors that his suicide had failed because his campaign had not been as carefully prepared as usual: he should have relaxed first with a hot bath so that his neck muscles would not have become tense, and turned the blade. Influence and nerve got him back into action. Within seven months he was sent to India, where a demoralized British army was still reeling from the loss of Burma. Wearing his accustomed sun helmet and a biblical beard, Wingate developed his theory of "long-range penetration groups" to operate behind the Japanese...
Soon Miguel is back flicking his switch blade. The way to rise above "little Spain" is crime, after all. He robs and murders, takes over as boss of the gang, and cooks up enough violent trouble to satisfy a theater full of Egyptian Dragons...
Form of what? Vague outlines of the female figure flow from beneath the blade. One breast pushes forward from a gently twisted torso. Where the other breast should be, Moore's scalpel scoops out a smooth crater. The head does not satisfy...
Divorced. Billy Rose, 59, millionaire showman; by Joyce Mathews, 39, blonde sometime TV actress who once (1951) dabbed at her wrists with a razor blade because Billy would not marry her; he for the third time, she for the fourth...
...bluest blade of them all is Lee Prince, who is merely rich, charming as a puppy, the handsomest man in the Ivy League, a handy athlete, hard drinker, scholar, and an author with a collection of short stories to his credit before he attains his majority. When he takes his girl friend to Bermuda (this at 17 or so), he does not buy the island, but, next best, he rents a taxi for the entire stay and wins a samba tournament. ''They were something!'' an onlooker reports breathlessly. "She always wore blue, and Lee always wore...