Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andrea Doria's card players looked idly out of a starboard window and gasped. The cause of her sudden shock: eerie lights of another ship glinting and sprinting out of the darkness towards Andrea Doria. A moment later, with a grinding, crunching roar, Stockholm's knife-sharp prow (reinforced for ice in northern ports) ground 30 ft. deep into the starboard quarter of Andrea Doria, just abaft her flying bridge. Then, with a shudder and shower of sparks, the shivering vessels jerked apart...
Thirty bowler-hatted London bankers trooped solemnly into No. n Downing Street last week, on an unprecedented summons from Chancellor of the Exchequer Macmillan. the liveliest man in the government of Anthony Eden. Urbane Harold Macmillan (who delights in his new Threepenny Opera nickname of "Mack the Knife") wanted to impress on London's top bankers the thin edge on which the British economy now rests...
...burst of inflation, he feared, would shake foreign confidence in the pound, and bring a new drain on the nation's gold reserve. In his drive to control credit, Mack the Knife has raised the government's rate on bank loans to 5½%, the highest level since 1932 Depression days, and twice the discount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...West Virginia, first state to make wholesale use of the mutilating brain operation, lobotomy, in mental-hospital patients (TIME, June 22, 1953), decided to lay aside the knife and see whether it cannot get better results with ataraxic (tranquilizing) drugs. Of 775 patients operated on, 268 have been discharged from hospitals, but the state is not following up the cases to see how they have made...
...Light Touch. In Union City, N.J., Otto Lohmann complained in court that George McLaughlin, 32, broke into his apartment, stole a $300 diamond ring, two shirts, an electric fan and a bottle of whisky, then forced him, by running a knife "up and down my stomach," to write a note stating that he had voluntarily surrendered the stuff...