Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week for Gillette. First, the razor blade company launched a $1,000,000 campaign to plug its new bright blue plastic container for 20 blades (98?). Next day, the board of directors declared an extra dividend of 50? a share, raising 1947 dividends to $2.87½ a share, highest in the company's history. The following day, Gillette's 3,457 employees got an extra week's pay as a bonus for record production...
...whispered to girls by young men on the prowl. Sometimes it is a simple: "Ah, mi corazón, where are you going?" More frequently it is a formularized gambit of a sort that has been used for generations. Thus, overhauling a girl in a green dress, a gay blade breathes into her ear: "You are a miracle when green; what will you be when you are ripe...
...General Dwight D. Eisenhower from King Frederik of Denmark went a bejeweled medal, the country's highest decoration, seldom given to anyone but princes: the Order of the Knight of the Elephant; from Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, a bejeweled, gold-sheathed sword whose blade bore the engraved leg end: ". . . in grateful memory of the glorious liberation...
Already some of the glamour of world wide responsibilities is fading. The United States is beginning to feel more like a father, with financial obligations and less like a gay young blade out on a fling. Only by resisting the temptation to slacken the drive for international cooperation now that fewer and fewer tangible results are forthcoming can America insure that the policy of internationalism, undertaken with such great hope is given every chance for success...
...neophyte singles oarsman must spend at least ten minutes on the practice rigs before he is allowed to take the safest of three available single-blade boats at Weld--the wherry. The wherry is the widest of the three, measuring 19 inches in width. The single scull is the narrowest at 12 inches and in between is the compromise--or comp--at 14 inches...