Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powdered aluminum in oxygen) ate into a wall of concrete as though it were candle wax. A second torch, burning fluorine in hydrogen, spat a tiny blue flame that could melt the concrete even faster. Either one, explained scientists of Temple University's Research Institute last week, could knife through any substance known...
...lectures. Wozzeck's purpose is to earn enough money to support his girl, Marie, and their child. But, tormented and ridiculed, Guinea Pig Wozzeck begins to have hallucinations. When his girl is seduced by a strutting drum major, Wozzeck mutters confusedly about "sin"; he stabs Marie, throws the knife into a pond. Then, in fear of discovery, he wades into the pond to recover the shining blade, but slips and drowns. In the last scene, Wozzeck's child is left rocking back & forth on his hobby horse as his playmates run off to see the bodies...
Last December, in an argument with other Baltimore youths over a girl, Vencill, 17, stabbed Eugene ("Cotton") Botts, 18, in the belly with a paring knife. A week later, after two blood transfusions at Johns Hopkins, Botts died. A murder indictment was handed up against Vencill, charging him with "assaulting and stabbing and causing the death of" Eugene Botts. Meanwhile the hospital discovered that, although Botts's blood was Type O ("universal donor"), he had mistakenly been given blood of the rare Type AB. Revised finding of the city medical examiner: death was almost certainly due to a kidney...
...tray spins like a Lazy Susan, particularly when one tries to cut "tenderized" steak (a hard enough job on the old trays), and the gravy then assails the knife-wielder and occasionally his neighbors...
There is no escaping his duty; Dr. Varga decides to operate. But he finds himself increasingly distracted by: 1) Pamela Vaughan, the good-looking nurse from the British hospital in Port Aarif, and 2) a whole array of El Bekkaa's subjects, who urge him to let his knife slip during the operation...