Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aviation in the future, jet propulsion undoubtedly has dazzling possibilities of speed, lightness and fuel economy. One problem a propellerless plane solves automatically is that of supersonic speeds at propeller tips; engineers have discovered that a propeller encounters "compressibility burble" and loses its effect on the air when the blade tips whirl at a speed approaching that of sound, about 750 m.p.h. at sea level...
...hour after the landing, Fireman First Class Aurelio Tassone of Milford, Mass. was roaring along on his 20-ton 'dozer when he spotted an enemy strongpoint. Skirting the coconut-logged bunker, he came at it from the rear. Bullets banged off the big blade which he had raised as a shield. The tractor rolled on like its armored offspring, the tank...
...went over the log fort, Tassone expertly dropped his blade. The pillbox collapsed. Methodically, as if he were smoothing a rough spot in a road, Tassone bladed earth over it. After the battle, the hasty grave was shoveled open: twelve bodies and a large new gun were exhumed...
...legends of the A.S.C. in the field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done and the airplane flew...
George VI of England gave "the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad" a four-foot, two-handed sword with a double-edged blade, a chased silver crosspiece, a grip wrapped in 18-carat gold wire, a pommel of rock crystal...