Word: bladed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though the proof is not always in the perusing, the independent Toledo Blade and the arch-Republican Los Angeles Times make similar claims to fame. The Blade, according to its masthead, is ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The L.A. Times reaches further, dubs itself ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The World's Greatest Newspaper? By decree of the late Colonel Bertie McCormick, that title was taken by his own Chicago Daily Tribune in 1911. As a staffer shrugged last week, "We can hardly back down...
...champ go soft. Like the Sugarman rubber-kneed against Fender. Like Papa not making it to those trees in time. Like Mickey Spillane coming back with his first book in eight years: "I let him get close enough to kiss me off with his eyes, took the blade out of his fingers so fast he never knew I had it until I raked him hard over the ribs where the blood could make a mess for everybody to see. When I hit him his teeth powdered and he fell against Benny-from-Brooklyn and lay there sucking...
...surprisingly agile buck and wing and lead his combo (trombone, clarinet, drums, bass, piano, trumpet) into a searing chorus of Down by the Riverside. Snarling, growling, shivering into a remarkably clean vibrato or soaring through long, liquid phrases, the trumpet slices through the group's sound like a blade...
...judgment was about the same as 22 years later, but the blade was not so sharp. Said the cover story on Vivien Leigh...
...baby for fear that it might offend potential customers, and he ruled out frying bacon and tooth brushing as not sufficiently dramatic. But he hopes soon to record an aerial dogfight between two World War I relics, the crash of a sprung gallows trap, the whack of a guillotine blade against the block. And his enduring dream is to catch on his own high-fidelity equipment the mid-century's ultimate sound-an exploding hydrogen bomb...