Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathered at one end of squalid, narrow Rashid Street, in the heart of the city. Reds raced up & down like cheerleaders, whipping up the mob; one agitator showed the approved method of handling opposition by leaping at a parked bus and slashing its tires with a huge knife...
...defendants were members of his faction, appointed by him to various jobs in the government or party. But not Vladimir Clementis, a deadly enemy. In 1949, Clementis was representing his country at the U.N. in New York when he heard the first rumblings from home that Slansky had the knife out. On U.S. soil, Clementis felt safe. But President Gottwald sent Clementis' wife to New York to reassure him that he could safely come home. Clementis returned to Prague, and then found that Gottwald could not or would not shield...
...Iron Mistress (Warner) is a dull-edged western about Frontiersman James Bowie (Alan Ladd) and his famous knife. According to this Technicolored biography, the Bowie knife-i.e., the iron mistress-was forged out of steel into which was fused the fragment of a meteor ("For better or worse, the knife has a bit of heaven in it-or a bit of hell," says one of the characters). So miraculously keen and deadly is this weapon that with it Bowie can kill off any number of his enemies-when he is not demolishing them, that is, with pistols, sword...
...months as an Army topographer in the Pacific that showed him what he was looking for. Today, he builds his strange and wonderful landscapes by laying on row after row of thin, radiating lines in red, yellow and brown paint with the blunt edge of a knife. He works until the ridges seem to catch and reflect the light, like fine embroidery done in metallic thread, and then he is satisfied...
...considers loose charges that crime shows encourage juvenile delinquency: "We used to have maybe two or three murders on a single show, but now there's generally just one. And we don't have anyone killed with an ax or have his throat cut with a butcher knife -they just get shot...