Word: knifed
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They are the soul of the personal computer and worth more than their weight in gold or cocaine. Small wonder then that these tiny, high-tech chips have become the latest target of the international crime set. A few tales from the cyberfront: in Greenock, Scotland, three knife-wielding masked men overpowered a factory guard last month and stole $3.7 million worth of chips and related computer parts; in Fremont, California, burglars disarmed a security system and made off with more than $1.8 million of chips and computer equipment in a January warehouse heist. And outside Portland, Oregon, five gunmen...
Frug was stabbed seven times with a serrated military knife in the abdomen, pelvis and thigh. According to theforensic investigation, each one of the woundswould have been enough to kill...
Police found the murder weapon, a K-barmilitary knife with a serrated edge, a day afterthe killing. The knife was free of blood ortissue, but matched the wounds on Frug's body,according to the police report...
Although Reilly could not comment on whetherthe knife has yielded any clues to the assailant'sidentity, calls by The Crimson found that similarknives are commonly available at local sportinggood stores
...reading Begley lies in his beautiful, economical virtuosity: characters are etched in three lines; epigram and description are effortlessly paired, as when he writes, "Death is the greatest of sculptors. His modeling knife had removed all but the most indispensable matter from ((his)) face." But for all of Begley's talent and painstaking technique, the novel never transcends artifice. Craftsmanship remains a wonderful virtue, but it's no substitute for genius...