Word: knifed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...homeless, knife-wielding man shot outside the White House Tuesday was charged today with assaulting a federal officer. The single charge carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. The accused, Marcelino Corniel, remained hospitalized in critical condition today in a nearby hospital. Corniel was shot twice by U.S. Park Police officers after charging across Pennsylvania Ave. brandishing a knife. Police defended the shooting, pointing out that Corniel refused repeated requests to surrender the weapon, which was strapped...
...Park Police officer shot and wounded a homeless man outside the White House, apparently after the man charged across Pennsylvania Avenue toward the officer with a knife taped to his hand. Witnesses said Marcelino Corniel, who sleeps in Lafayette Park across from the presidential home, stood still in a semicircle of four officers when one of them advanced, and after Corniel lunged, the officer fired twice, wounding him in the chest and right leg. (Corniel was in critical condition late this afternoon.) But the Park Police, who defended the shooting, released a videotape of the confrontation's final moments, basically...
Slasher. The word evokes images of the nineteenth-century mass murderer Jack the Ripper, sporting a shiny silver knife and a bloodthirsty eye. Stories of the legendary killer still linger into the late decades of the twentieth century, pervading dime store novels and Grade-B horror movies...
...dear readers, just any books. These were rare books, focusing mostly on church history, literature and organic chemistry. And for eighteen months, between 1990 and 1992, Stephen L. Womack allegedly used a knife and his hands to rip out pages from each book's spine...
That's right. Womack was a University employee, more specifically, a Harvard library employee. Which meant he could spend many a blissful hour shredding pages and plunging his knife into dusty tomes without anyone raising a questioning eyebrow at his presence...