Word: cleavers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while thousands jeered, a fearless Scot named William Wallace, the heart and soul of his country's resistance to the conquering English, was dragged through the streets of London behind a horse, hanged by the neck, cut down while still alive, disemboweled, decapitated with a bloody great cleaver, hacked into four chunks and sent home to Scotland severally...
...claw-hold as Hollywood's grande-dame ghoul. As Miss Charlotte, Bette rummages through the psyche of a Southern belle who first appears, already acting a teeny bit strange, one memorable evening in 1927. During a ball, someone slips out to the summer house and takes a cleaver to Charlotte's married lover, who has just jilted her. First John's right hand is lopped off, then his head, never to be seen again. Anyway, not for 37 years...
...outside the house, Benchley lets the ghost sink a second one. The ghosts, to be sure, have more life than the characters who are purportedly alive. There is Ebenezer, the ghost of a sullen, shifty sea captain who made a wraith of his infelicitous wife Felicity with a meat cleaver; and there is plump, blonde Jenny, who in her lifetime was known as a "hoor" among the townsfolk and who still plies her trade among the restless spirits. The novel is hardly more substantial...
...Four young Negroes, one swinging a meat cleaver, ranged through the cars, terrorizing passengers on a Brooklyn train. Finally, one yanked open the door of Motorman George Dauenheimer's cab, held the cleaver at his neck and snarled, "Are you black or white?" Dauenheimer said, "I'm white." The Negro shouted, "I'm just going to cut your head off." But when Dauenheimer stopped the train, the hoodlums jumped off. When they tried to break into a change booth, they were arrested and jailed by subway police...
...were so hobby to see your lublyrebue on Beatle John Lennon's writty [May 1]. We all considerate quite a good larf, you know, and think John vary cleaver...