Word: knifings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...knife all us others...
Faster than Sound? Part of the secret of the Shooting Star's hair-parting speed is an aerodynamically new knife-edged wing which helps "master the problems encountered when the speed of sound [about 750 m.p.h.] is approached or surpassed." The rest is in such things as the ship's light weight and her powerful jet engine (improved and built by General Electric from an original British design). One of the engine's best attributes: it can be replaced in 15 minutes-against an average of nine hours for the standard plane's reciprocating engine. This...
...complaints-a dignified silence. If De Beers was disturbed by the charges of price fixing, control of production, quotas for diamond merchants, etc., it was comforted by the belief that Biddle has no more chance of denting the cartel than of cleaving a diamond with a butter knife...
...division had long ago been mechanized-but it was still cavalry at heart and its' oldtimers still talked nostalgically of the stable call and of night marches to the rattle of horse accoutrements. In the 1st Division a company was still a troop, a battalion a squadron. Knife-nosed, 46-year-old Major General Verne Donald Mudge was its commander, a cavalryman since he left West Point...
...milder among his opponents, he is a latter-day Richelieu, moving suavely and powerfully behind the scenes, establishing his own court favorites or giving the knife to those fallen from grace. Extreme critics have pictured him as a kind of Svengali, whose sinister influence covers sinister designs on the President and the country. Others say he is a man of no principles who simply acts through (and hides behind) his idolized principal, the President...