Word: daggerisms
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...with venom in his heart went home. At midnight, his mind was made up. In the way prescribed by the rigid samurai code, Nakano purified himself with cold water, donned a new kimono, knelt on a pillow before a small shrine. With a sure hand, he plunged a dagger into his belly, drew it across, then turned it upwards...
Ruth Mitchell, the late General "Billy's" sister, and by her own account an energetic dagger-bearer with the Chetniks (TIME, April 14, 1941), settled in Reno for a divorce. She has been separated for eleven years from her second husband, Stanley Knowles, a British schoolmaster...
...first three years of the war, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal's scholarly dictator, had to maintain a correctly meek attitude in the presence of saber-rattling Germany, dagger-rattling Italy, jack-knife-rattling Spain. Now Italy is knocked out, Spain is trying to scramble out from under, Germany's saber is busy parrying the slashes of Portugal's potential allies...
...Cloak & Dagger Man. The public learned to watch him after his spectacular trip to North Africa in October 1942. He went by British submarine, made contact with French patriots who eased the way for the November landings, got away to sea again after a ducking in the surf that lost $18,000 in gold. After winning his three stars, at 46, he was one of the youngest U.S. lieutenant generals...
Murder Without Crime (by J. Lee Thompson; produced by Del Bondio, Windust & Weatherly) starts off nicely when a young lady is stabbed with a dagger. But it winds up sadly, strangled by its own wordiness...