Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard student pulled a knife on a waitress in Arthur Parker's luncheonette at 2 a.m. last night. The Cambridge police were summoned immediately and fired three warning shots into the air as the fleeing youth ran down Dunster St. and ducked into the alley in front of the WHRB radio station. Shortly later he turned himself in to the University police...
Presently, voter apathy is so thick it can be cut with a knife. A recent Gal lup poll found that only 21% of voters had given "quite a lot" of thought to the coming election, while 19% had given it "some" thought and 60% "little or none." A year from now it may be hard to believe that the nation did not realize in advance that the 1954 election would set the political scene for 1956 and beyond...
...tightrope." And in The Mad Lomasneys, an older man invites the fury of his girl by denying she knows anything about love. Says O'Connor: "At the age of eighteen to be told that there is anything you don't know about love is like a knife in your heart.'' More Stones slows down ordinary life-which could be anywhere -for a good look at it; the Irish accent is merely the pleasantly accidental result of O'Connor's being an Irishman...
...Insist ... In Detroit. Claude Berry was given ten days for drunken driving, despite his insistence that "three masked men grabbed me. pulled a knife and forced a lot of whisky down my throat. That's how I got drunk...
...pintail is another trick entirely from following a wood duck through trees. For all the instruction a hunter may have had, all the trapshooting he may have done, lining up a wing shot, says one expert, "is something like learning how to balance peas on the edge of your knife, or kissing your wife. Only practice and a species of intuition will make you successful...