Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocked up the knife and twisted it around in his fingers until he was sure everyone was watching him. Then he scooped up a load of peas and, lifting the knife, high, rolled them slowly into his month. Same chuckles same trick. He wondered how many times the chef, had served peas in the past year. That's one way of finding out how many times he'd pulled the routine, how many times the same, audience had applauded. How Many Times, From the song of the same name. Now if these bright boys could follow his thoughts, he could...
...became impossible. An aroused but befuddled electorate returned only five of the nine C.C.A. candidates to office and the City Council will limp along on a scant five-to-four majority for two more years. Until the liberal elements in Cambridge can pile up a record imposing enough to knife through class bigotry, they must resign themselves to a never ending battle with those politicians intent on turning the city government into a money tree...
Ready for the Season. In Missoula, Mont., the U.S. Forestry Service gravely announced that a grizzly bear had broken into a cabin, sneaked off with a hunting knife, an ax, a box of cartridges...
...heard that Montgomery had been made a Field Marshal and proclaimed the greatest living soldier. Our appetite for breakfast was not so good." He quotes with approval Bradley's comment that Monty's promise of a "dagger thrust" at Germany would be more like a "butter-knife thrust...
Just as they are about to leave the quaint fishing village for Paris and married love, Mitchum turns up from years of imprisonment, with a beard and more desire than both of them put together. A beautifully photographed fog promptly descends, through which the three principals grope, knife, shoot and shout their way toward a predictable ending...