Word: knifepoint
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After stealing some jewelry and a Camcorder, the intruder entered the woman's bedroom where she was asleep with her child, forced her at knifepoint into another room and raped her, the officer said. The alleged rapist then bound and gagged the woman and fled through the same window...
Last September, a Mather House resident was assaulted at knifepoint just outside the house and fled with bruises and a cut over his eye. Another Harvard student was sexually assaulted mid-morning while jogging along the river...
...stealing checks, he escaped charges in the shotgun death of a girlfriend seven years later but served a total of eight years for a burglary and two assaults on other women, one involving kidnapping. Free again in 1985, he abducted a female acquaintance and forced her at knifepoint to withdraw $6,000 from the bank. He got 16 years for that, but thanks to California's rules mandating early release for good behavior, Davis served only half; emerging just in time, if his confession is to be believed, to relax at a bucolic, vine-decorated "transitional living" facility...
...abandoned traditional consensus politics to force a vote over the opposition's objections on four pieces of legislation that would radically change Japan's electoral system. Liberal Democrats, still fumbling in their role as the largest opposition party, fumed that the government was pushing them toward a decision "at knifepoint." Hosokawa did not shrink from the implication. "I believe that this is the way parliamentary democracy should be," he replied. "We should have as much discussion as possible, but we must in the end go ahead...
Last Tuesday, an MIT student was robbed at knifepoint at 2:30 a.m. near the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Amherst Street. The assailant made off with $4, The Globe reported...