Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trapped between gunman and bomb, the captives sweat it out through all sorts of minor melodramatic outbursts: two of the hostages unsuccessfully try to knife and shoot the desperado (Stephen Mc-Nally); a doctor (Richard Egan) performs an emergency operation on the gunman's wounded pal (Paul Kelly); the doctor's spoiled wife (Alexis Smith) sees her lover (Robert Paige) shot to death; love comes to a hard-boiled nightclub entertainer (Jan Sterling) and a reporter (Keith Andes...
...young men of Austin (among her beaux: Silliman Evans, now a Nashville publisher, James Allred, who became governor of Texas (1935-38), but most of the time she was too busy for the flapperish goings-on of the day. Old Ike Culp took to carrying a long-bladed, switchback knife in his pocket, ostensibly to pare his nails, but word got around the legislature that he intended to use it on any young man who attempted to get smart around Oveta...
...Knife. In February 1942, when Rommel was threatening Alexandria and the British feared an Egyptian stab in the back, British tanks battered down the gates of Abdin Palace and forced King Farouk to accept Nahas Pasha as Premier. That evening a 24-year-old Egyptian captain, attached to the British at El Alamein, wrote his brother: "I am glad for this incident. This cut of the knife has given life back to our young officers...
...Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie refectory last week, a crotchety oldster scraped with a surgeon's knife at one of the world's greatest paintings and muttered in annoyance as the tourists clustered around. To the spectators, his knife-wielding seemed the final indignity to the remains of Leonardo da Vinci's famed Last Supper, sorely damaged by 400 years of weather and bungling restorers. Professor Mauro Pelliccioli, 65, knows better. Next month Italy's No. 1 art restorer will finish up his work on the 15th century masterpiece, and one government official...
...Irving Parks, complaining in court of his neighbor's over-neighborliness, testified that Charles Romaine had stopped him on a downtown street, invited him into a tavern for a drink, and, when he hesitated, tapped him on the head with an iron bar and poked him with a knife...