Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less eye-catching than these marvels were some of the new postwar gardening tools and gadgets which were finally being produced in quantity. The fanciest was a four-wheeled, gasoline-driven lawn mower with a unique rotary blade-it worked something like a floor-waxer. Price: $179.50. Runners-up were an electric hedge clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, where the temperature was 26° below zero, ladies of easy virtue ceased to advertise their charms by rapping on sporting house windows with a silver dollar. The more functional substitute: a safety razor blade. When scraped across a window pane it produced a sound approximating the love call of a snipe. More important, it scraped the ice off the glass, enabled passing gents to peer...
...doctor was an attractive man, and had been a gay blade as a youth. He had played football at Princeton, loved beer, singing, the sound of mandolins; during his years at Dartmouth College medical school he had written the famed Dartmouth Song. But Harold Segur never learned anything about the doctor to substantiate his sense of kinship. When he was 21 the doctor showed him his adoption papers. They read: parents unknown...
Across the plains, ranchers and cowhands tied bandannas under their Stetsons to protect their ears, pulled on sheepskins and mittens, and began a desperate rescue operation. Horses were helpless in the drifts. Trucks were useless except on cleared roads. But a caterpillar tractor with a bulldozer blade was worth its weight in gold...
...Blade. In St. Louis, Jerome Scissors got engaged to Laura Cutter...