Word: shear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decide. "If you're in the Army," says one, "you don't have much to say about whether you're going to march the next morning. We don't have much sense of participation." But the feeling is general that the strike is inevitable. A shear operator at a Jones & Laughlin tin mill shrugged his broad shoulders and said: "The men don't want a strike, and they don't want raises. They don't know what the union does, but they have blind faith. They'll back the union...
...Shear Conservation. In Norfolk, a skindiver was fined $10 for snipping off fishermen's hooks with a pair of scissors...
...Shear Luck. In Atwater, Calif., Bill Blasingame failed to stop his truck in time at a railway crossing, sat helplessly while a passenger train clipped off the front end up to the windshield; stepped out on wobbly legs...
...London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed his forehead!" The trail led to an elegant tonsorial emporium called Trumper's, which fortnightly dispatches a barber named Crisp to the palace to shear Charles (price of the haircut: 62?). What manner of brow lurks beneath the Prince's plunging forelock? "We never," announced Trumper's aloofly, "discuss the heir's hair...
...thus refusing to approve a House of Commons bill to abolish capital punishment (TIME, Feb. 27), the House of Lords last week flung the first direct challenge in the face of Britain's elected representatives since 1949-when the bill in question was one designed to shear the lords themselves of a large portion of their legislative power...