Word: blading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of lines, including American, BOAC, TWA, Pan American and Delta, have had to pull engines out of service. Pan Am normally repairs one or two engines a month for second-stage blade malfunctions but so far in July has had to work over twelve engines at New York's Kennedy Airport. Supremely conscientious about safety, Pan Am in some cases has had to transfer passengers to another of its planes or even another airline. Passengers have had to change planes lately in Teheran, Lisbon and Frankfurt...
...divisions operate no fewer than 123 subsidiaries in 18 countries, including a string of several hundred service stations in Europe, oil and gas drilling operations in 14 countries, chemical producers, the Walker Manufacturing Co., which makes auto parts, J.I. Case, a farm and construction equipment manufacturer, and Hegg-blade-Marguleas-Tenneco, one of the country's largest brokers of fresh fruits and vegetables. The company has acquired 26 firms in the past seven years alone. Yet unlike many other conglomerates, which overextended in the late '60s, Tenneco seems to be absorbing its purchases easily. Last year after...
This time McPhee splendidly records the sights and inhabits the psyches of a dozen or so great players at key moments during the 1970 matches at Wimbledon. His triumph, though, is a portrait of Robert Twynam, senior groundsman, who for years has exhorted the Wimbledon grass to grow, almost blade by blade. For Twynam, the empyrean racket men of the age are mainly classified as "toe-draggers, sliders or choppers," in relation to how their profane tennis shoes carve up England's most pruned and perfect piece of greensward...
...lovers of a philosophical bent may ponder an empty frame bearing the label A Knife Without a Blade Whose Handle Is Missing. Georg-Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799* The more athletic ones can equip themselves for the outback with a bizarre weapon whose barrel undulates like a snake: it is a kangaroo gun, "whose specially studied trajectory enables the bullet to follow the bounding animal...
...nightfall, a team of Holy Cross surgeons were at work on Wallace. Four, perhaps all five of the bullets had struck him. Two apparently passed through his right arm and shoulder; another glanced off his left shoulder blade. One crashed through his abdomen, perforating his stomach and nicking his large intestine; it was removed...