Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspended were not just hooky-players and teacher-sassers. Many of them were knife-toting youngsters awaiting trial on such charges as robbery, assault and rape; many others had been convicted and turned back into the schools on parole or suspended sentences. Some could not be notified immediately of their suspension; they were chronic truants. Others, ironically, took the news with chagrin. Said one principal: "They felt they couldn't be touched. They didn't want to be in school in the first place, but when we told them we didn't want them, that was different...
...School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect that made him say "wowse" for "house" and "awong" for "along." They backed off when Chuck bore in with fists flailing; they fled when he opened a knife...
...students, one armed with a shovel, the other with a knife, attacked a third boy in the cafeteria. Last fortnight a 13-year-old girl was reportedly raped in the school basement. Later a hoodlum from the outside punched a policeman on the school grounds, and two other hoodlums, also from the outside, assaulted the school's recreation director. As a result of these incidents, Principal George Goldfarb, 55, was twice called before a special grand jury investigating juvenile delinquency in the schools. He was supposed to appear a third time last week...
...year-old boy accused of raping another 13-year-old girl at P.S. 20; six drunks who stabbed two girls in a subway station; 21 boys found with an arsenal of knives, clubs, and wire whips; a 17-year-old boy nabbed while trying to hide a hunting knife under a jukebox; three boys arrested for stealing a car; two boys accused of killing a man of 21; two other 16-year-olds charged with trying to rape a 12-year-old girl in a tenement hallway while her little brother, 7, looked helplessly...
House Broken. In Detroit, police said that Freddie Washington smashed a rear window in trying to rob a bar, found himself locked in the washroom, climbed out and ran home for a chisel, screwdriver and knife, went back in the same window, broke into the bar, returned to the washroom, where he was still hiding when police arrived...