Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gossip, pressagentry and political hip-shooting for much of their U.S. news. Over the weeks, he leaves the impression that most Americans guide their lives by astrology, gorge themselves on thick steaks, give their daughters $10,000 debuts and are all ready to jump into aluminum pajamas and lead-foil brassieres at the first hint of atomic attack...
Meanwhile other thinkers produced a variety of other life savers, among them a suit of aluminum pajamas, a lead foil brassiere to protect "mammary projections" and a lead girdle (which would be valueless unless it were six inches thick) to protect the spleen. All were gently but firmly discouraged. So was at least one man who was peddling perfectly valid information-the inner four pages of the CDA's 10? official survival book. He was reselling the pages for a dollar...
Rawhide (20th Century-Fox). Four badmen, escaped from jail, seize an isolated stagecoach station and wait for the big gold shipment to come through. They kill the stationmaster, grab his assistant (Tyrone Power) as a foil, and hold a stranded traveler (Susan Hayward) and a toddler as hostages in the belief that they are Power's wife & child...
...incompleted foil event the fencers are about fourth behind Navy. Both the foil and the sabre will be completed tonight...
...Yale freshman captain, Dawson Shoemaker, is outstanding in the foil, while George Jacoby has had a good season in the epee for the Blue...