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...raised two spunky sons. But black-tempered John Cozad was too powerful for his own good-and power tends to corrupt those who lack, as well as those who wield it. Settler jealousy festered into hatred. When Cozad, in patent self-defense, gunned down a knife-flashing enemy, he had to skip town to avoid a lynching...
...help others: "I would buy an airplane and take up as many friends as I could." James Hough would wait in the garden: "I would pray that it would land in the sea and do no damage." One girl decided to stab herself to death with a carving knife ("It would be quicker that way"). Billy Peart wrote stoutly: "I would make sure we could press the button which would send our rockets back to Russia...
...usual. Forming a human chain across the tracks, one gang stopped a commuter train, dragged off the dozen Africans aboard and kicked and beat them. Others used roadbed ballast stones to smash train windows, dragging one young African messenger off and amputating his hands with a broad-bladed knife...
...abandoned a $40-a-week secretarial job to win the role of the secretary in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul, later sang the role of Desideria in Menotti's Saint oj Bleecker Street, a part that, like Carmen, required her to die of a knife wound each evening. ''I've been dying for a couple of years," said she at the time, "and I wonder if there's any future in it." Mezzo Lane sang her first traditional operatic roles at Manhattan's City Center-Carmen, and Amneris...
...this fluent, zestful biography, Author Kobler shows how, in the Age of Reason, John Hunter's profession was largely a slit-or-miss affair. Anesthesia was virtually unknown; patients scarcely drugged by doses of laudanum or brandy expected only death from the agony of the knife. Untrained midwives often ripped babies' heads from shoulders in the course of arduous labor. The cliquish Corporation of Surgeons had a near monopoly on cadavers for dissection; private anatomy teachers were forced to traffic with the "sack-'em-up men"-the body snatchers...