Word: knifes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman in Greenough was robbed at knife point late last night by a stranger who entered his room through the open door...
...deep south, Christian forces with Israeli troops at their side have been challenging the Palestinian presence along the Lebanon-Israel border Says Pierre Gemayel, 72, charismatic leader of the Phalange, the strongest Christian political and fighting group: "Israel has the power to break the Palestinian arm holding a knife at our throats. Is it so astonishing that we are cooperating with Israel...
Violence was ever ready to erupt in Lee. At nine, he lunged at his half brother with a butcher knife-an attack that their mother dismissed as one of Lee's "little scuffles." A New York City social worker, who interviewed Lee when he was a truant of 13, reported that he had fantasies of being powerful and killing people. Before he turned 16 he confided to a friend that he would like to kill President Eisenhower "because he was exploiting the working class." After Lee shot at and very nearly killed General Walker, Marina became convinced that...
Borges includes a few of his gaucho stories: spare, Kiplingesque tales of hard drinking and knife fights in provincial Argentina, where, he says, there is no small town "that isn't exactly like all the others - even to the point of thinking itself different." Such stories of pure action follow a ritual and rhythm - like simple milongas and tangos - that allow the author to dance briefly from the library stacks where he has spent most of his years. And where he truly belongs. For it is from the life of books that he discovered how to fit elegantly rigged...
...Ogaden. The front claims that it could raise an army of 400,000-roughly the size of the Ogaden's population-if only it had the weapons, and that is probably true. Every nomad seems to carry a rock, a club or a knife. Some have antiquated rifles, and a few proudly display Soviet-made automatic weapons. They are dressed in rags for the most part, but are highly motivated. Reports TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood, who visited the fighting zone this month: "A war anywhere else would make these people merely refugees. But the intensity of their...