Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family increased. Meanwhile, unobserved hungry children deftly stole the food off the coffin, while tanks rolled by in the distance. The mother's moaning intensified. Suddenly, other women shrieked and pulled her to the ground, grabbing at her arms. She had begun slashing her tongue with a razor blade to inflict physical suffering on herself, and they were trying to stop her. We left the funeral and drove back to Saigon, hardly speaking...
...that was missing from the scene was the distant drum roll and the thwack of the guillotine blade as White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler briskly announced each day which heads will roll in the President's pruning of the bureaucracy. Last week alone the count of important resignations accepted reached 17, bringing the overall total to nearly 60. Not in memory had a U.S. President made such a clean sweep of his own appointments...
Forsyth's skillful set-piece description of how to make a bomb and attach it to a Jaguar XK 1505 (using five rubber erasers and a broken hacksaw blade) is a model of worldly efficiency. But he is also capable of howlingly unintentional humor. After pages and pages recalling the ferocity of the SS, a Jewish survivor warns the young reporter: "Do be careful. These men can be dangerous...
Opulent, colorful, polished, Dunster's production of Lenny enmeshes us in the jokes, the faces, the accents. As much as it is a projection of Lenny Bruce's mind, the show is a reflection of the world that crushed him. At the end, the hard blade gleams like the point of one of Bruce's jokes. It is easy to become so caught up in the laughter, the artifice of Lenny sauntering from stage to bedroom, that the real courtroom scene of his last indictment stands in harsh contrast. Despite the sinister tone of this scene and the ones that...
...instructor and came back shaking their heads about some of the punishment he meted out to inattentive ballplayers. Fitzsimmons said that on one occasion Knight told a boy who had not paid attention during one of his lectures to run a quarter of a mile to get a blade of grass. When the boy returned, Fitzsimmons said, Knight told him he had gotten the wrong blade and should go back into the woods and get another...