Word: knifed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thousands of Kuwaiti children suffered severe stress. A United Nations Children's Fund survey of those ages 5 to 13 in one neighborhood found that 62% showed signs of traumatic shock. Teenagers were disoriented by the violence. Since the war, knife fights have erupted in schools, drug use is mounting, burglaries and vandalism have increased. Near a fashionable seaside shopping mall, teenage boys on motorcycles harass girls, and others race in flashy sports cars. Some of these youths were among the 400,000 Kuwaitis who left the country during the occupation and lived a life of ease in European...
...alarming factor is the emergence of a new breed of teenage killers who seem to have lost all respect for human life. The idea of having a knife or a , gun has moved beyond the drug subculture to infect a large segment of all young people. A CDC study found that 1 out of 5 high school students enters the classroom carrying a gun, knife or club...
...kind of knife edge, as I always thought it would be. Because to an extent I've been a hostage to the hostage situation. Whenever people have tried to make my case very public, to debate it very noisily, it has been suggested that to do so would be to prolong the hostages' plight. Now, since the hostages are out, I am able to speak more freely...
...chief of staff's many enemies in Washington saw an opportunity to take revenge. Republican leader Robert Dole, who has seethed since Sununu helped Bush win the 1988 New Hampshire primary by suggesting that Dole was a closet advocate of higher taxes, coldly spurned him. Then Dole twisted the knife by describing Sununu's phone call to a television interviewer. Some White House officials and G.O.P. political strategists were miffed that Sununu was trying to end run the President. Bush himself was reported to be "chapped" by what seemed to be an attempt to blackmail him into retaining Sununu...
...mile front. The Fritzes were thrown back by its ferocity. A German reporter assigned to the front recalls coming upon a soldier staggering out of a wood screaming "Aah! Come and help me! I can't see. They've gouged out my eyes." Soldiers had attacked him with a knife, slashing his eyes but taking care to let him live. "There!" said one of the Russians. "Go to the other German dogs and tell them we'll destroy them all. We'll cut out their eyes and send what's left to Siberia . . . Now get going...