Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Plant 42, ruddy, husky (5 ft. 8 in.. 170 Ibs.) Pilot Johnson squirmed into a pressure suit, picked up his helmet, oxygen mask and parachute, walked out to a dainty, needle-nosed F-104A Starfighter, a silvery sliver of jet aircraft with short (7½ ft.), knife-edged wings. Johnson checked the plane carefully: 5,000 Ibs. of fuel, no armament, a special package of instruments whose faces stared at a 35-mm. movie camera. His preflight check done, "Scrappy" Johnson "just got into the plane and took off." Mission: a new high-altitude record...
That would be enough, but there's more. The sound-effects man was obsessed with reducing everything to tape--including the subtle squish of a knife in the belly. Edmund O'Brien and Brando confuse drama with intensity and emotion with shouting. And the producer staffed Cassius's band of conspirators with film lot extras noted chiefly for Grade B gangster movies and smoked alfalfa sagas--making it difficult to take their pentameters with the proper seriousness...
...captain of a baseball team, member of the Police Athletic League. Assistant president of the Egyptian Dragons, he shouldered out the president, made himself boss. On the night of the murder, he confessed, he had steeled his courage by getting drunk on cheap wine. He used a knife...
Frightened, Cheryl fled to the kitchen, headed for her mother's room with a knife. "I walked toward the bedroom door," said Lana. "He was right behind me. And I opened it and my daughter came in. I swear it was so fast, I truthfully thought she had hit him in the stomach ... I never saw a blade...
Journalist Nathan's most effective weapon was not a butcher's knife but a stylist's stiletto. With malice toward some, he dubbed Noel Coward's Design for Living "a pansy paraphrase of Candida"; dismissed T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party as "bosh, sprinkled with mystic cologne." Maxwell Anderson, jeered Nathan, "enjoys all the attributes of a profound thinker save profundity." Nor did Nathan spare his fellow critics: Said he: "Impersonal criticism is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful. Show me a critic without prejudices...