Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Underwater Demolition Team School at Little Creek, Va., he slipped into the ice-blue waters off Key West, Fla., for an enjoyable afternoon of shark shooting. A couple of fathoms below the surface, he nonchalantly stuffed chunks of a freshly killed, 7-ft. sting ray into a meat grinder, let the bait drift down-current; soon he had five sharks gliding gracefully around him. A 7-ft. dusky shark broke slowly away from his companions and hovered near the skindiver. Suddenly, maddened by the scent of ground ray, the shark flicked his powerful tail and bore down on Slaughter, jaws...
...Bacon came into the New York American's offices primed with schemes of calendar reform and admitted, conversationally, to two carnal thoughts a year "at the most," Fowler knew he had his man. He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon." The operation went off with a burst of flashbulbs and headlines. Unfortunately, Mr. Bacon looked ten years older after his rejuvenation:"One result of the operation was the complete riddance of his carnal thoughts. He retired...
...Orleans newspapers and many once-loyal do-gooders. With the segregation issue thrust at him, Morrison proclaimed that he was a better segregationist than Davis (who, he claimed, once ran an "integrated" nightclub in California), spent too much time criticizing Songwriter Davis' risque compositions (Red Nightgown Blues, Organ Grinder Blues...