Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blade. In fact, Hershey does play around some with the size of the bar, changing it to counter the wildly gyrating world cocoa market. Since World War II, as cocoa prices have ranged from 8? to 74? a pound, Hershey's nickel bar has varied in weight between a full ounce and seven-eighths of an ounce, and company executives have learned to swallow such gibes as "Hershey is packaging a nice razor blade now." Recently, when cocoa prices tumbled below 30?, the bar was raised back to a full ounce. Hershey jiggers with weight instead of price because...
...niggun!" He speaks of the "irresolute student who apparently wishes to lick the icing of identification without eating the cake of commitment," and, in his final paragraph, he addresses the neo-Hasids directly: "To all of vou neo-Hasids, including myself, I bequeath a Bris [circumcision] with the dull blade of superficiality...
...marriages infused new blood-and new money-into Europe's sagging aristocracy; of a heart attack; in Paris. Wed to Count Boniface de Castellane in 1895, Anna Gould divorced him after an 11-year phantasmagoria of pink marble palaces and $150,000 parties during which the Parisian gay blade skated through more than half of her $13.5 million inheritance. Two years later, she wed the fifth Duke of Talleyrand, a descendant of the wily French diplomatist whose machinations shaped post-Napoleonic Europe, lived with him for 29 years until his death...
...Bluebelle. "Oh, my God," stammered Harvey when he heard the news. "Why, that's wonderful." A few minutes later, he excused himself, slipped out of the hearing room, went to his motel, slashed his left thigh, his ankles and his throat with a double-edged razor blade...
...this clash between public duty and private conscience, Playwright Bolt has made a drama that relies on precision of language rather than eloquence, the prism of thought rather than the blade of action. Strangely and wondrously, for a Broadway stage, it is the mind that dances in Seasons; faith is the inner core, but intelligence is the outward proof of the hero's virtue. That a play so chaste in its lucidity should ultimately fill a playgoer's eyes with tears is partly a debt British Playwright Bolt owes to British Actor Paul Scofield...