Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madison Avenue and sist Street in Manhattan, would have made him a fortune even if he had not invented the mercury vapor lamp, built the first American steam locomotive, or helped finance the Atlantic cable. His long white hair reached almost to his shoulders. He shaved himself with a razor used by George Washington. He wore a black frock coat, a black stock about his neck and, when he went visiting, had one of his grandsons trot along after him carrying an air cushion to ease his sharp old bones when he sat down...
...bleak Nanking headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army, thin, razor-keen General Shunroku Hata was brightly confident. He boasted: "As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops." The year...
...Hawk. It is Claire Chennault's face that stops a man, meeting him for the first time. The skin is burnt and leather-beaten by the sun to a permanent brown, cut and scarred by razor-sharp lines that drop perpendicularly about his mouth. About the eyes sky-strain has woven a lacework of crow's-feet. Within this net work, two coal-black eyes brood and smolder. Said an artist assigned to do a portrait of the General : "That man has the face of a hawk...
When the Japs pushed out vigorous counter patrols, the Marines chose the trees that would be most tempting to Jap snipers. In the bark, the Marines stuck razor blades. As anticipated, the moment the Japs hit, the sniper squads started up the trees. Then they began dropping "in most outraged surprise." While still staring at their hands, they were picked...
...advise this," said The Brute. "It's wasteful of razor blades...