Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sustained?indeed, defined?the vaunting, unstable strength that is the soul of rock, the barefoot boogie along the keen edge of the blade. There are lots of scars and some wounds that will never heal. The music remains intact, inviolate. No other group has ever pushed rock so far, or asked so much from it. No other band has ever matched its sound, a particular combination of sonic onslaught and melodic delicacy that is like chamber music in the middle of a commando raid. No other group, in return, has ever had so much asked of it by an audience...
...agents in 1964 lashed the soles of his feet with electric cable: "The flesh was torn apart, and the bones jutted out. There were multiple fractures." The agents, he says, also held a knife to his throat for hours, making small nicks and telling him to guess "when the blade might go all the way down and sever my head." Amnesty International in the 1970s described other methods of torture: electric shock, burning on a heated metal grill, and the insertion of bottles and hot eggs into the anus. Last spring Anne Burley, an Amnesty International researcher, was shown...
Merner sliced by his opponents, 5-2 and 5-0, and once again showed incredible speed and technique. At one point, Merner staved off his SMU attacker by neatly stepping aside and darting his blade into his opponent's chest...
...September, Bazargan told a television audience, "The government has been a knife with no blade." In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, he said: "Khomeini has never been a real politician. He's never had the training needed to face the administrative responsibilities that he now finds on his shoulders. In fact, he doesn't understand government, he doesn't know the techniques for administering a country." On Tuesday, realizing that Khomeini and his advisers were supporting the embassy siege, Bazargan at last resigned. He had been particularly stung when the students charged him with "treason" for having talked...
Even so, Doland was not entirely overjoyed with his promotion. "I'll miss being out there, picking a blade of grass and putting it in my mouth," he told the Lake Charles American Press. "I'd rather have coached this year. But the board of regents told me to divest myself of the sideline duties as soon as possible." While his public candor was earning sympathetic chuckles, the McNeese Cowboys obligingly went out and won the first seven games of the season...