Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparatus of Rube Goldberg complexity: the churning ice pushes against a tall pole stuck into the frozen river; the downriver drag on the pole tenses a wire running from the pole to a clockhouse on the river bank; the pull of the wire trips a weighted meat cleaver, which cuts through a rope, triggering a device that stops a clock at the winning instant...
...sector, years ago St. Louis' "silk stocking'' district, the twister changed its swath-cutting pattern and skip-bombed its havoc: it ripped up some of the same buildings that were wrecked in the St. Louis tornado of 1927 (which killed 78), dropped at random like a cleaver in some blocks, spewed rubble into great heaps. And then, perhaps five minutes after it had begun, the tornado snuffed itself...
...block-square, million-dollar Shoppers Market in Santa Monica, Calif, was having its grand opening. Behind the butcher counter stood Actor Ernest Borgnine, a smile on his face and a meat cleaver in his hand. The man who proved, in Marty, that butchers are nice people, was being spurred on by throngs of movie fans and pressagents and a group of scantily clad models with placards announcing, "I Love Marty." Reporters, newsreel cameramen and photographers were on hand, and two representatives of the Santa Monica Bay District Meatcutters Union, Local 587 (the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America...
...Light Touch. In El Paso, officials at Fort Bliss formally dedicated a new $310,000 Army mess hall by using a meat cleaver to cut a 6-ft. string of hot dogs stretched in front of the entrance...
With a Meat Cleaver. Neighbors come and stain the good earth with their quirks and vices. The drunken O'Dowd chases his chattering wife with a meat cleaver...