Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jessup continued: "The Soviet Government has revealed the weakness of its position by adopting what I may refer to as grasshopper tactics . . . Each leap ends on a blade of grass which turns out to be a flimsy pretext requiring a jump to a new but equally unstable position . . . The long process of proposal and counterproposal, of promises made and withdrawn, made it plain that good faith-that prerequisite to settlement-was absent from the Soviet mind...
Garry ("The Man Without a Country") Davis, 26, once a gay blade about Broadway, was pretty serious in Paris about his one-man crusade for World Government (he renounced his U.S. citizenship last May to dramatize his point...
Married. Paul Mellon, 40, onetime banker, horse breeder who races a stable of steeplechasers, son of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon; and Rachel ("Bunny") Lambert Lloyd, 37, daughter of drug (Listerine) and razor-blade (Gillette) Tycoon Gerard Barnes Lambert; each for the second time; in Manhattan...
...seldom get hurt," said Perey, "but once in a while the blade breaks on a weapon and the shaft goes right...
...Department of National Defense, she learned tenacity. In the barnlike Minto Club, not far from her house, she practiced her first figures;-learning to do eights, brackets and counters ; to skate on the inside or outside edge of the runners (never on the flat of the blade); to avoid the "wobbles" which leave wavering traces...