Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia gave President Roosevelt (through visiting Princes Feisal and Khalid) a three-foot sword with a diamond-studded grip and curved blade of Damascus steel...
...prospector's job to buy a package of cigarets or a glass of beer. The people's clothes are getting shabby. It is hard to buy simple things like matches and writing paper, impossible to buy golf or tennis balls, almost impossible to buy a razor blade...
...Western and northern Europe are also objectives, and Winston Churchill has said that the Allies' mightiest invasion weapon is being shaped in Britain, the western base. A chip from that weapon fell on Sicily last week; the blade may fall anywhere from Norway to southern France...
...These young naval officers that we see about the place, all wearing terrific piratical beards, are now the lucky fellows," sighed Novelist J. B. Priestley in a BBC broadcast in which he modestly boasted that he had been using the same razor blade for a month. "Women say they dislike beards," said he, "but that, I fancy, is because women can't help having a secret and uneasy respect for the bearded male, a respect they don't feel for us smooth-faced fellows...
...Blade of Armor. The First began that battle. Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson and his First Army landed at Algiers on Nov. 9, and they set forth at once for Tunisia. Because they could not know what kind of reception they would get, they were long on offensive weapons, short on transport. Nevertheless they threw "a couple of brigades and a blade of armor" toward Tunis. They traveled in two columns. One reached Mateur, the other Tebourba, 20 and 18 miles from Bizerte and Tunis respectively. By then the advance forces had outrun transport and air support...