Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through proper diplomatic channels-a local poojari, or medium. After spreading the temple liberally with sweet-smelling blossoms, coconuts, saffron and camphor, the poorjari cut off the heads of several roosters and sprinkled their blood on the ground. Then he sat down on the sharp edge of a knife and went into a trance...
Boys of 14. The rising sun showed villagers who their attackers were: mostly country boys, some as young as 14, every one with a good Mauser rifle (a few had automatic rifles), a revolver, a machete, a knife. Commanding the bandits from San Pedro's central plaza was a lightly built man of about 25, clad in a new ruana (wool poncho). This was the storied bandit chief, Tulio Bautista...
...Mexico island hangout, but no one can accuse Louisiana's Jim Bowie of lacking nerve. Besides, Lafitte is dead drunk at the mo-mert. As for Catherine, who can blame her? Bowie is a bluff, broad-shouldered god, at once bold and gracious, a fighting terror whose terrible knife is to become a frontier legend, yet so gentle that a woman's touch makes him tremble...
...Iron Mistress is a creaking fictional makeshift when it strains to get inside Bowie's mind. Author Wellman is more successful when he describes the fightingest man of his day in action, the massive bowie knife flashing, his disemboweled foes falling all about him. No one, it seems, can stand up to peaceful Jim when his dander is up. It is a sad irony that he should be lying helpless on a cot when the Alamo is stormed by Santa Anna's men on March 6, 1836. Even then he sells his life pretty dearly. Bowie...
...soon gave up hope, but found that he could not give up trying: "It's hard to drown when you know how to swim." That first day, sharks pestered him. He killed one: "I grabbed his tail, flipped him over and ripped up the belly with my knife." He had plenty of time to think. "I thought about how I was messing up the race for a lot of people. I thought about the time I had wasted in my life." At sunrise the next morning, the sharks came back...