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Word: knife (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saying, 'I am an American, just a plain American, and we're your friends.' One boy looked at me and said, 'You hate Communists?' I said, 'Yes, I hate Communists.' He slashed his hand across his throat as if it were a knife and said, 'My mother, father, sister killed by Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Wreck of the Majestic | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

Born in the wilds of Delancey Street, Home of gefilte fish and kosher meat, Handy with a knife, oh herr sack tzi [listen with care], Flicked [plucked] him a chicken when he was only three! Duvid, Duvid Crockett, King of Delancey Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King Davy & Friends | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...June 20 issue there appears your report on the bowie knife along with a request for one from the King of Iraq . . . The letter you mention was a personal one to me from the King's aide-de-camp . . . asking me where he could obtain such a knife and also books on Western gunmen, etc. . . . As to the controversy over the name of the inventor of the knife, that was settled when my book Bowie Knife was published. A monument was raised to the inventor, James Black, more than half a century ago. The ashes of his old blacksmith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...Sharpen Your Knife." Jim Ringley, 59, is a dedicated Legion politician. During World War I, Ringley tried 17 times to get into the service, was turned down 17 times for faulty vision. On his 18th attempt, he made the grade, spent the rest of the war at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort Meade, and was discharged as a private. Returning to his native Chicago, he joined the Legion and plunged into its politics. In moments of Legion political crisis, Ringley's favorite maxim is: "When you're hurt, you smile and sharpen your knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Kingmakers & Fun Lovers | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...Glasgow's Clydeside shipyards last week, Queen Elizabeth II swung a wooden mallet bearing the carved likeness of a Canadian beaver. The mallet tapped a knife, which cut a cord, letting the traditional bottle of champagne swing against the white hull of a new ship. Then the duly christened Empress of Britain, a 24,000-ton passenger liner built for Canadian Pacific Steamship Ltd., went slowly down the ways into the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Economical Empress | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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