Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blade of the civil rights issue cuts in many directions, particularly in the South. It is expected that thousands of Negroes, allowed to register and vote for the first time because of legal and legislative actions supported by the Kennedy Administration, will cast their ballots for their sponsors...
...cold basement floor, nude, on the cold basement floor, lovely, and over the horror of the fact washed the desire for the act, uncontrolled, it swept me under despite me, put the hatchet in my hand so my palm dreamed the hatchet's smooth wood pressing as the blade pulled its end down and I felt my arm come...
Prized Order. Of Sweden's 30 steelmakers, two dominate the stainless blade market. One is Sandvik Steel Works, a $100 million-a-year company that sells more than half of the world's regular razor-blade steel. Its far-traveling president, Engineer Wilhelm Haglund, 60, made several flying trips to Boston in the past year to win the prized order to become Gillette's prime supplier for stainless...
...biggest by far is the Uddeholm Co., which originally solved the one problem besetting ordinary stainless steel: sharpening it. An Uddeholm scientist 40 years ago devised a method for aligning the chromium particles into an even pattern so that the stainless blade could be honed as keenly as carbon steel. Uddeholm sold batches of that steel to Gillette in the 1930s, but stainless blades did not catch on because shavers found them irregular in quality. A sudden and tremendous demand began a year ago, after Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. brought out a blade coated with silicon plastic...
...from the steel experts to those shavers who take a sporting glee in eking out as many shaves as possible from a single blade: rinse but never wipe the blade, because that removes the silicon coat and causes the razor to snag on the beard...