Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement: the guillotine, which like military conscription, is one of the fruits of the French Revolution, is about to go the way of the auto-da-fe as an instrument of human justice. Henceforth condemned Frenchmen will not have to lie down and bare their necks to the falling knife; they may, as soon as transportation and the French electric-power shortage permit, sit down in a shiny new, U.S.-made electric chair...
Unhappy Ending. In Manhattan, Mrs. Thomas Guerin, 80, after 55 years of marriage killed her husband with a carving knife...
...narrow ledge overlooking the sea at the southern end of Okinawa the two Generals whispered to each other. They knelt side by side on a patchwork quilt covered by a white sheet (the color of death). Ushijima's aide stepped forward, bowed, handed each General a gleaming knife. The knives had been half covered with white cloth, so that the aide did not touch the sacred metal...
...Generals opened their blouses, unbuckled their belts. Ushijima leaned forward and with both hands pressed the blade against his belly. One of his adjutants did not wait for the knife to plunge deep. With his razor-sharp saber he lopped off his superior's head. General Cho leaned forward against his blade. The adjutant swung again. Orderlies took the bodies away...
...order, none is so abhorrent as the censorial power. I may mention that the late message of the President of the United States was not regarded in all its parts as a safe document for Russian readers, and came to their hands scarred by the censor's knife...