Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...UNDER KNIFE, GODFREY HAS LUNG CANCER, GODFREY TO BE TOLD, GODFREY TAKES
Asian Algeria. The smashing of the revolt in Lhasa was as brutal as the action of Soviet Russian tanks in Budapest. But Tibet is not another Hungary: it is more likely to become Red China's Algeria, a festering war to the knife that can be neither won nor lost. The Communist garrisons should be able to hold the cities and the main roads. They can even find a handful of Tibetan collaborators, like their tame puppet, the tenth Panchen Lama, a wan young man of 22 who is unable to control the monks of his own lamaseries...
...years of engineering training at the University of Wisconsin, Sullivan hired him. But to fellow draftsmen the young Wisconsin countryman, with his flowing tie and long hair, was a natural butt for jokes. Wright fought them to a draw, in eluding one brawl from which he emerged with eleven knife wounds in his back...
...asking for $3.9 billion for foreign-aid funds in fiscal 1960, the President is asking for too little, and not-as his knife-whetting congressional foreign-aid enemies are saying-too much. Needed, some $400 million more...
Rojas did not laugh. Stooped and grey at 59, he bitterly turned the knife on old colleagues. "If there is honesty," he declared, "you must bring here without exception all those persons who collaborated with my government." Such a roster, as everyone knew, would include several Senators, and the five members of an army junta that replaced Rojas and now live in honored retirement. His wealth? Ah, said Rojas, there were a few "presents," received in the spirit given, "whether it was a herd of cows from ranchers of the Ilanos, or a little duck from an unhappy old woman...