Word: blading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of this contretemps, Prisoner King mysteriously acquired a hacksaw blade, sawed through a barred window of the county jail and escaped...
...quartet that attacked a 55-year-old baker walking home in south London last July. "It was suddenly like having banshees wailing in my ear," the baker recounted. "They kept screaming while two of them took my arms and one jabbed my back with what felt like a knife blade. They made me kneel down with the side of my face against the pavement, and they took everything I had. Then one of them took her foot and crushed my head against the pavement...
...barricade of cement blocks, twisted pipe and the hulk of a burned-out bus. Then, at the crossroads known as "Free Derry Corner," it halted-blocked by the Bogside's most formidable barrier, a truck chassis embedded in solid concrete. The bulldozer poked at it, broke the great blade that projected from its snout, and finally backed off and rumbled away. Two days passed before jackhammer crews finally dismantled the barricade...
PEOPLE beefing about the oppressive price of food may find it hard to believe, but the supermarket business has traditionally operated with profits as thin as a sales slip and competition as keen as a butcher's blade. Prices are going up not because supermarkets are squeezing out more money, but primarily because they have had to pay more to wholesalers, who in turn have had to pay more to farmers. The July wholesale price index rose at an annual rate of 8.4%, from 6% the month before, mainly because of food costs. Retail food prices will continue...
...difficulty centers on the fan blades in the Pratt & Whitney JT9D-3A engines, which were put on early models of the 747. What is eerie about the problem is that it continues to occur even though Pratt & Whitney has supplied the airlines with new blades made of higher heat-resistant alloys. Pratt & Whitney is now sending to the lines a comprehensive "modification kit" that changes parts of the engine and converts it to the equivalent of the power plant used in the new 747s. These later-model planes have not had an abnormally high rate of blade failure. Trouble...