Word: daggerisms
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...slaying of the female sinner by the nearest blood relative, without even inquiring as to the identity of the male lover. To make the "washing out of shame"-as this kind of murder is called -more effective, it is carried out by a hand-wielded instrument such as a dagger, which is then handed to the police, dripping with blood. Maria's fate should have been sealed by her father with a meat-carving knife in the dining room, where he first heard of the soiling of his honor...
...University managed to main tain its record as a ferocious raider of Ivy League faculties. Yale's bright, articulate Bayless Manning, 41, rolled into Palo Alto last summer completely equipped with wife, four children, a black Porsche sports car, a worn set of Shakespeare, an Egyptian statue, a dagger that had been used in a Philip pine murder and a rapidly expanding reputation as one of the busiest young legal scholars in the business. Manning's former boss, Yale Law Dean Eugene V. Rostow, had already given warning of the prodigy he was sending west: "Manning...
...growling comic-strip Mexican who leers: "You cooked dee pot of tamales, I juz' took off dee lid." And in the film's bumbling climax, ironic tragedy turns to fatuity when Harvey belly-whoppers into a clump of sage, staggers to his feet, notes a bejeweled dagger protruding bloodlessly from his chest and announces coyly: "Ah tripped...
...federal trial of persons charged with a capital offense. Brodsky demanded and got a list of the names and home addresses of all 75 agents. The dilemma was obvious. Was the conviction of Sokolov and Joy Ann worth making public the identity of dozens of U.S. cloak-and-dagger men, thereby ending their usefulness? The Justice Department thought...
...soaring stature is also a measure of its cloak-and-dagger, sharp-elbowed driving to get the best...