Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frozen-Food Saw. A toothed knife to cut frozen food was put on the market by W. R. Case & Sons Co. of Bradford, Pa. "Freez-Cut," which leaves no ragged edges, also cuts through bone. Price...
...careless mother and no father. When Lena began going out with boys, her mother, as a dire warning, told her she was illegitimate. Lena sought out the man adjudged her father in a paternity suit years before, but he repudiated her and sent her away. Lena began carrying a knife, then the hatchet, for protection on her way home from work. She said that the old tailor, whom everyone called Pop, tried to fondle her. As she hit him, she kept calling...
Columnist Herb Caen of the San Fran cisco Examiner, who likes nothing better than balancing on the knife edge of propriety, last week passed along to readers a choice item about Cinemactress Ava Gardner. One night, while gambling at Lake Tahoe, said Caen, Ava announced: " 'I want to roll the dice for $1,000.' She picked up the dice and began rubbing them up and down the front of her dress, all the while chanting 'Come seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted...
Crea in the Breast, she instantly fell and Expired, her hair Was long and flowing, the same chief grasped it in his hand. Seized his knife and took off the scalp in such a manner as to include nearly the whole of the hair-then springing from the ground, he tosed it in the face of a young wariorur. who stood near him watching the operation...
Ordinarily, the Sultan rides outside the palace walls to cut the ram's throat.* The new Sultan prudently preferred the safety of a mosque inside the palace grounds. Carefully, he thrust his knife into the animal's throat, then stood back while the carcass was placed on a jeep and rushed off to the palace. The tradition is that if the sacrificial sheep arrives at the palace alive, the land will be blessed. A few minutes later came word from the palace: "The animal arrived still breathing...