Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bound for a plywood mill. Logs are rotated against a huge blade which peels them into long, thin sheets of wood...
...said the marine sergeant, who hadn't put much faith in his linguist's coaxing ability in the first place. At this point an armored bulldozer, piloted by a young Seabee, rumbled through the underbrush. The sergeant explained the situation to him. The bulldozer man drove his blade into the earth and started to push dirt from the ground level into the quarry where it fell across the mouth of the cave...
...bulldozer driver eyed the result with disappointment and then determination. "Hell, I'll fix him," he said and swung his snorting machine around. He went around to another side of the cave and dipped his blade into the earth. This time he found soft dirt. He scooped bladeful after bladeful against the mouth of the cave until it was blocked with at least a five-foot thickness of earth. It all ended there. It was not very satisfactory because we never found out what was in the hole. Maybe some day somebody will dig into this piece of earth...
...razor blade is tacked down with a wire taped to it and going to one side of the coil and on to the aerial. The other side of the coil goes to the ground and to one side of the headset. From the other side of the headset a wire goes to the safety pin, which is driven into some wood at one end so the pin may be turned. Then the free end of the pin is moved across the unground part of the Marlin blade, and in that way you can find your station. Reception is very good...
Harold went to Harrow and Sandhurst (Britain's West Point), became a dashing young blade, an indifferent student, a topflight track athlete. In 1914, he won the Irish mile (6,721 ft.) in 4 min. 33 sec. He chose to start his military career in the Irish Guards rather than the Coldstream Guards which his grandfather had commanded. In World War I he went over the top 30 times, was wounded twice, became a lieutenant colonel and a battalion commander...