Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very defensive about it, and we'd like to see things stay the same. Most thinking people realize that economic development is necessary?you have to have a job to live. But we want change to come in a way that preserves the natural flavor, not necessarily every blade of grass or every weed, but the natural flavor. There are those who argue, 'Now that we're here, let's close the door. Put up a fence, keep the rest out?all those other guys.' But we just can't do that...
...dandy of American art is a woman, Louise Nevelson. Nobody is more recognizable: the fine, blade-nosed Aztec face with its monstrous false eyelashes, like clumps of mink, is as manifestly the property of an artist as Picasso's monkey mask. The sight of Nevelson under full sail-mole-colored hunting cap, peasant flounces, Chinese brocade and wolfskin, bronze pendants clanking, boar's teeth rattling-is one of the few spectacles of complete self-possession in American life; the 19th century poet who walked his live lobster on a ribbon outside the Ritz could not have looked more...
Epeeman Robert Kaplan gained the decisive fourteenth victory against Brandeis, keeping out of reach of his opponent, then thrusting his blade forward when the opponent overcommitted himself...
...captain Nancy Cooper said after the meet, the point against less experienced opposition is not to "show what an elegant, multi-feinted fencer you are, because then your confused opponent will merely stick her blade out and watch you run onto...
...Pingree flung his blade forward at chest level Mandelbaum squatted down near to the ground and delicately poked the engineer in the stomach...