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Word: knife (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Turn Them Out | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Even with the World | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outrage in Brooklyn | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outrage in Brooklyn | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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