Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced a passport as identification; but it was not his (he had borrowed it). He was briskly hauled off to the station house. Eventually delivered into the strong hands of an older brother, the student Prince had his pockets stuffed with extra socks, two pennies, and a $1.50 hunting knife, which he had taken along to protect himself from Wild West desperadoes...
...other dignitaries did not fare so well. Big, jovial John Steelman, the President's special assistant, had unsuspectingly come dressed in white shirt and pants. As Truman chuckled gleefully, Steelman was laid out on the tin "operating table," prodded with an electrically charged knife, and given a gargle of quinine and lemon extract from a huge hypodermic syringe. Then he was plastered with paint, run through a gauntlet of shellbacks wielding stuffed canvas paddles, up steps with electrically charged handrails. After another gargle, he was pushed into a tilting chair and dumped backward into the ducking pool, where seven...
...backbiting world of fashion she is quite able to take care of herself. As Sophie says, in her most ladylike tones: "After all, my dear, Hattie Carnegie isn't really a designer. She's a saleswoman." (Catty-cornered across the way, Hattie parries this knife-thrust acidly: "I wouldn't call Sophie a competitor because I don't even think twice about her.") Sophie makes no bones about the fact that she is no drawing-board designer, that she couldn't draw a curve to save her neck. If it comes to that, most...
...this one-man boom is a paraffin-like substance which its chief producers, DuPont and Bakelite, call, respectively, polythene and polyethylene. Tupper's all-important contribution is a process which overcomes the material's tendency to split, makes it tough enough to withstand almost anything except knife cuts' and near-boiling water...
...From Trieste this week the Associated Press reported that a Yugoslav priest, Father Miro Bulesich, was beheaded when he tried to ward off a knife-brandishing mob that attacked and seriously wounded Msgr. Giacomo Ukmar, a Vatican prelate, after a ceremony at a church in Lanische, Venezia Giulia. Meanwhile, authorities found the mutilated body of a third Roman Catholic priest, bearing the "marks of horrible torture...