Word: daggering
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Sure, the look in Mike's eyes said, I suppose your existence, what you might choose to call your reason for living, precisely what's been keeping you from plunging the dagger into your throbbing heart, is the publication of this meager little book . . . this little 153-page book that's hardly worth the $5.95 they expect you to pay for it . . . and you've been waiting for it . . as if to pretend you didn't already read half of it in one of the summer issues of New York...
...knelt on the floor, only inches away. "Don't be a fool, stop it!" the general cried. Mishima paid no heed. He followed to the letter the seppuku, the traditional samurai form of suicide sometimes called harakiri. Probing the left side of his abdomen, he put the ceremonial dagger in place, then thrust it deep into his flesh. Standing behind him, Masakatsu Morita, 25, one of his most devoted followers, raised his sword and with one stroke sent Mishima's severed head rolling to the floor. To complete the ceremony, Morita plunged a dagger into his own stomach...
...Pontiff stepped out of his chartered Alitalia DC-8 into the bright sunshine at Manila airport. As Paul and Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos pushed through throngs of admirers, a crewcut man in gray clerical garb, holding a crucifix, rushed forward. Suddenly he slipped a foot-long Malay dagger out of his sleeve and lunged. Churchmen around the Pope blocked the assailant, and security men swiftly wrestled...
...dagger poems in the slimy bellies...
...sort of coaxed me-got me involved in publications I didn't know about or suggested I ought to cover this or that demonstration." For his "services," Salzberg (code name: "Winston") received $6,700, all in cash, plus another $2,300 for expenses, delivered in high cloak-and-dagger style in parking lots, parks, street corners and zoos. He protests that he did not do it for the money. "I personally feel that by any means necessary Communism must be stopped. What surprises me is that newspaper editors haven't called me up to congratulate...