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Word: knife (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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First to die was John Kent ("Shob") Carter, 25, whose body was found one night in his psychedelically painted apartment. He had been stabbed twelve times with a butcher knife, and his right arm was severed at the elbow. A few days later near Sausalito, a pair of hikers discovered the body of William

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: End of the Dance | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...young man in Paris gradually turns into a salamander. An elegant young girl crosses a bridge in Budapest and becomes an aged crone in the process. A motorcyclist, after skidding into a curb, finds himself lashed to an Aztec altar as a priest approaches with a knife. The nastiest member of an Argentine family walks into the wrong room and is eaten by a tiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unease in the Night | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...year-old New York girl was en route to her dormitory about 2 a.m. when a man grabbed her, she said. The assailant held a knife at her throat and threatened to kill her if she screamed she reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summie Girl Robbed, Assaulted in the Yard | 8/8/1967 | See Source »

...York's East Harlem, Puerto Ricans broke windows, looted and sniped from rooftops for three nights after a policeman fatally shot a man who had pulled a knife on him. At one point, the youths who led the rioting drew a chalk line across Third Avenue and tauntingly wrote: "Puerto Rican territory. Don't cross, flatfoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Fire This Time | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

Castello quickly introduced reforms, but he went at his job like a surgeon with a dull knife. In a series of decrees, he tightened credit, cut government spending 30%, canceled ruinous import subsidies, and brought the rate of inflation down to 41% by last year. To clean out Communists and political corruption, he stripped almost 800 Brazilians of their political rights and abolished all political parties except for a catchall government party and a token opposition. To guard against any return to the old ways, he also wrote a new constitution that provided for indirect presidential elections by Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Price of Unpopularity | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

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