Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...died down, this Harvard gentleman made sure that the legality of the liquor racket wouldn't be carried to extremes, by clipping the rather dirty wings of beer baron Dutch Schultz. By now, people in Jersey, (where the Judge was operating) were prepared for anything from this legal razor, blade-and they were prepared to like it. Well, the next objects of Clark's attention were the toes of "I am the law" Hague. They got stepped on. Result: "New jersey was practically, reincorporated into the United States...
...well into which he threw it and grew so huge that it would wrap itself many times around a nearby hill. It devastated the countryside and when cut into pieces reunited and slew its attackers. A local witch told Sir John he could kill it if he would fix razor blades to his armor and vow to kill the first living thing he saw after vanquishing the Worm. If he broke the vow, the beldame said, for nine generations no Lambton would...
Making his vow and donning his razor blades, Sir John challenged the Worm. They fought on a rock in the river, and after the Worm had wounded itself on the blades Sir John hacked it in two with his sword. One half floated down the river and, unable to rejoin, the Worm died. But Sir John did not kill the next living creature he saw. It was his father. The next nine generations of Lambtons died violent deaths...
...open spaces around the great naval airfield at Surabaya, Java, are set with bamboo stakes, about waist high, their tops whittled razor-sharp. A visiting journalist recently asked what they were for. The commander of the base explained that they were designed as an unpleasant reception for parachutists, and added: "When Holland first fell and we were very excited we put poison on the tips of all these stakes...
...work. ... A typical American sales representative will breeze into the Bogotá branch of the National City Bank and ask for an interpreter to go around and talk to some Colombian businessmen for him; your German will ride two days on muleback to sell a dozen packages of razor blades. The American in a Latin country tends to insulate himself from contact with the people of the country; the social customs seem to him absurd, and he makes little effort to understand them. He is not interested, and usually is not backward about showing his disinterest. Germans perhaps feel...