Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knife & Corn. The Maya, he says, were remote cousins of the Inca, the Iroquois and the Eskimo. Squat, copper-colored, often cross-eyed (admiring crossed eyes, they hung beads of resin before the eyes of their infants to induce a squint), they were wise, brilliant, cruel...
They produced delicate works of art, designed remarkable buildings-and tossed human victims screaming into a holy well, or held them while a priest groped for the heart with a sharp stone knife...
...race kept up for a while, petered out just before World War I, and shifted then suddenly and violently to short, dresses, simpler dinner-parties, and fewer chaperons. During the twenties, manners became big business for the Posts and Dixes, and America's attention shifted from the age-old knife-fork-spoon controversy to the compatibility of good breeding and petting...
...press did not even toss an adjective). Three liquor stores were held up, involving a total theft of $713 and one gold watch (the U.S. State Department did not so much as lift an eyebrow). Mrs. Mary Gordon, returning home from the movies, stabbed her husband with a bolo knife (and East and West still held their uneasy peace...
...nimble little man (116 Ibs.) of elusive gaze and elusive ways. The police chief of Cornwall Township, Ont., aptly named Robert Henry Hawkshaw, had been after him ever since Lama's wife and nine-year-old daughter were found last Aug. 16, murdered with a knife, in the tin-covered Lama shack. There were "at least 71 reports that he'd been seen," but every time the police got there, Lama "had gone...