Word: stilettoes
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...rocket ship which Bridgeman jockeyed to speed and altitude records (79,494 ft., 1,238 m.p.h.) in 1951 was the third stiletto-nosed, dull white Skyrocket built by Douglas for the Navy.* It could fly for three minutes under full power after it had been dropped from the bomb bay of a B29, but it took weeks to prepare for each 180-sec. flight, including replacing the 15 coats of lacquer burned off in every...
...fine. They like their dizzy labyrinth of alleyways, the Queen of Heaven jail and the little shop where the baker's daughter and the artist Raphael lived and lusted 400 years ago. They also delight in the dark, heavy-bosomed beauty of their women, the deftly handled stiletto and heroic quantities of dry, amber Frascati...
...University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins could see nothing but harm coming from this "cloak-and-stiletto work . . . [It] will not merely mean that many persons will suffer for acts that they did not commit, or for acts that were legal when committed, or for no acts at all. Far worse is the end result, which will be that critics, even of the mildest sort, will be frightened into silence . . ." Loyalty oaths for teachers are utterly useless, said Hutchins, "for teachers who are disloyal will certainly be dishonest; they will not shrink from a little perjury...
...satiric fable about a totally efficient, totally soulless Utopia. This defense of the unreconstructed individual, who refuses to run with the mob, is a central theme in much of Huxley's writing, and it spills all over his latest novel. But where Brave New World was a neat stiletto jab into the tender hide of the reforming perfectionists, Ape and Essence, a poorer novel, is a rather crude bludgeon indiscriminately aimed at all men's thick skulls...
...Yorker series had started out briskly enough; by instalment No. 3 it seemed like a rambling candidate for the New Yorker's own "Infatuation with Sound of Own Words Department." It had not been as stiletto-sharp as many "profiles"-at least, not yet. New Yorker readers might have preferred it condensed. But it was safe to assume that the Digest would not do it for them...