Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guthrie's statement that surgery has become painless "shocks one as a thundering lie ... but of course means only that the patient does not feel the touch of the surgeon's knife. . . ." (The pain comes after operations...
Finally someone remembered that there was state business to transact. Calling the Council together for an open-air session, Horace Hildreth had a hunting knife at his hip. To call the meeting to order he rapped on a tree stump with...
...wicked man. His name was Nicholas Biddle. He was president of the Yewnited States Bank, which was a wily scheme to get hard money away from the COMMON MAN and give him scraps of paper in exchange. This Biddle was a bad actor. He did not eat with his knife and he foregathered with cronies who drank soup in silence so they could hear each other plot against the COMMON MAN. They were called Federalists. They held that some of the COMMON MEN could be hoodwinked all of the time, and that that was enough. They plotted to keep...
...easy attitudes of complete cynicism on the one hand or Pollyanna optimism on the other are equally disastrous; it is a narrow and perilous knife edge that teacher and student alike must walk...
Stowaway. In New Orleans, Adam Hanks was finally relieved of the mysterious "stomach trouble" that had bothered him for nearly 34 years when doctors operated and extracted an old knife blade from his back...