Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folk singers eating a little more regularly than in the past? We remembered that Lead Belly had sometimes been a little short on "loot...
Recalling the legendary strength of Lead Belly's hands, and the fact that he played a twelve string guitar, with steel strings, we asked about that...
That night amazed police described the weapon that had brought Marcel Leopold low: a hollow dart, built along the lines of a two-stage rocket, which was shot from a blowpipe to strike the murdered man's flesh, and then released a sharply pointed lead bullet from its tip to penetrate his vitals. Had it also carried a load of deadly poison on its point? The police were not quite sure. Neither did they have an idea of who might have fired it. "All we know," said one official spokesman, "is that this doesn't look like...
...charge the plate; the first and third basemen often find themselves playing just a few yards from the batter. Then the second baseman covers first, the shortstop covers third and the centerfielder takes over at second. The hit-and-run is rare, since base runners are permitted no lead...
BOEING AIRPLANE CO. has opened a wide lead in race among planemakers to put first jet transport into commercial service. So far, its 600-m.p.h., four-jet 707 is ahead of competing Douglas Aircraft's DC-8 in hours of test flying, firm orders (155 v. 123), expected delivery dates (late 1958 v. mid-1959). But Douglas will try a new angle to catch up. Instead of test-flying one plane, as Boeing has, Douglas will send up first eight or nine DC-8s for 60 hours or more each, thus hopes to accumulate enough flight time...