Word: bladed
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...wouldn't mind having to pay higher taxes and higher prices if our fatuous leaders wouldn't squander the money on nations with infantile policies of aggression. Giving nuclear reactors and know-how to Arab nations is like giving a razor blade to a baby. Nixon was prepared to sacrifice most of his staff to get the Watergate heat off his back. Is he preparing to sacrifice the prosperity of the U.S. and the security of the world...
...testimonial could have been the sort of denouement that was a Preston Sturges specialty, an inadvertent confession of blindness and stupidity. It could have had a well-honed double edge of irony, but such style should not really be expected from film makers who prefer a bludgeon to a blade...
...made the move to New York, where he would eventually come to epitomize all that was elegant and dignified about jazz. But in those days he was a tough blade. In Chicago, where he frequently dropped in to play, there was a standing order: "Duke Ellington is not to be bothered in the Loop." It stuck, because it came from Al Capone...
...because of the single click of a shutter. Ben Hogan, from the tougest parts of Texas, known as the Iceman for concentration that could shut out the world, jumped for his life while putting in one tournament. He had heard a movie camera start up while he drew his blade back and he thought it was a Lone Star rattler...
Terse Shapes. The word primitive simply evaporates in the presence of a work like the Quimbaya pectoral (see color page) with its strange deity, man-bodied and bird-beaked, whose bifurcated wings of head dress echo the sweep of the gold blade beneath his feet. The sharpness of execution - perfect corrugated threads lying in their parallel curves, the sense of exacting formal detail at every part of the design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino...