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...Sacramento. Using shovels and finally a tractor with a scoop, the deputies turned up body after body; by late last week, continuing a crescendo of horror, they had found 21 bodies-mostly of middle-aged white itinerant farm workers, all of them apparently hacked to death with a heavy knife like a machete...
Beggar's Opera. Achievement such as Wild's does not go unnoticed, and one day in front of Old Bailey a betrayed colleague named Blueskin Blake tried to cut the Thief-Taker General's head off with a dull knife. He failed. In 1725, though, Wild was sentenced to be hanged by a corrupt judge (appropriately, on false evidence that he had received a bit of stolen lace). Wild died wealthy, though. During his career the reward for giving evidence rose from ?40 to ? 140, or from $2,000 to $7,000 in modern money, as Author...
...reads the writing on the wall: the dream of civil rights was a dream after all. The author realizes his skill at self-delusion and acknowledges his long-repressed fears. Come the Washington riots, he sleeps "with a Billy club fashioned from a broomstick and a wicked butcher knife next...
...best as a Senator to oppose this proposal," said William Proxmire, who figured heavily in the defeat of the SST. House Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman, who helped defeat the Administration's initial loan proposal to save Penn Central from bankruptcy last year, also has his knife out. Others are opposed to the rescue plan unless, as Indiana's Vance Hartke says, "the corner grocer gets...
...police busting twelve of us for obstructing traffic when we were going 25 miles an hour in a 25 zone, and then, as we're being arrested, an officer taking his Louisville Slugger and smashing the front windshield of our van, and then slashing the tires with a knife. And coming back four hours later to try to pick up the van, and finding the police had exploded popper gas inside, and watching the cops across the street laugh as we choke. A police sergeant came up to me, "What's the matter boy?" "I ran into a little...