Word: cutlasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sharpest cutlass on the (Holy Cross) guard squad is weilded by Chet Millett, a star on the rise, who leads his drop-out plays like a swooshing torpedo. --From the 1951 Football Annual
...CHANCE VOUGHT, which moved to Dallas three years ago, is now producing the tailless, swept-wing jet Cutlass. Vought also is working on flying missiles. ¶HAMILTON STANDARD will shortly quit its plant adjoining Pratt & Whitney for a new $12 million plant at Windsor Locks, Conn. Its postwar hydromatic propellers have made such advances in airline safety that they are now specified on 90% of all U.S. transports in service or on order. In the belief that turboprops will be used on commercial planes before pure-jets, Hamilton Standard is perfecting supersonic and dual-rotating propellers for use with them...
...Noiseless as spectres, Delano and the two maidens slid into the [ruffians' den]; and the young lieutenant . . . instantly singled out the chief from among his sleeping comrades, and with one fierce thrust, sent his cutlass directly through his body, and with such force, that the keen weapon was deeply sunk in the floor." The climax of The Signal; or, The King of the Blue Isle, by E. Curtiss Hine, was at hand. When Delano had finished his bloody work, "three hundred corpses lay strewn about the room...