Word: knifepoint
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...from the daily concerns of life in Asia. Then, in the space of just a few days, civilians from Japan and South Korea?as well as Canada, Britain, the U.S., Italy and Israel?were taken hostage across Iraq. The collective message of the kidnappings was as acute as a knifepoint: America and your allies, get out. On Sunday, just hours before the deadline to kill the Japanese hostages, the kidnappers reportedly promised to release them. But with the violence intensifying and the insurgents beginning to define their enemy targets more broadly, Asians are being forced to realize that this kind...
...Mitchell allegedly came calling once more, on the evening of June 5, 2002, when he cut a hole in a window screen in the Smarts' kitchen. He plucked Elizabeth at knifepoint from the bedroom she shared with her sister. Who knows whether Elizabeth recognized the man who had worked once on her family's house and now led her through her backyard up into the Wasatch Mountains. Police say the trio spent its first three months camped in the maze of gullies and canyons just a few miles from the Smarts' home...
Kathleen Baty calls herself the Safety Chick. She has made it her mission to get women to think smart about keeping safe. Baty found her calling after being stalked for eight years by a former acquaintance who eventually attempted to kidnap her at knifepoint. After an 11-hour police standoff, Baty escaped. She was determined never to be a victim again. Her book A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do (Rodale) offers plans for staying safe while working, shopping, traveling, surfing the Net or going on a date. To avoid being dosed with a date-rape...
Several hours after the Nov. 3 murder, a man was kidnapped at knifepoint in Harvard Square. A witness informed the Cambridge City Police, who arrested four men on kidnapping charges, three of whom were quickly tied to the murder...
...junior in Cabot House was robbed of his cell phone at knifepoint Sunday night at 11:15 p.m. while walking from the River toward the Quad...