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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same court-martial had appeared the Bath lorry driver's wife. She said that the Negro had knocked and asked for directions to Bristol. She said that she walked down the road with him to show him the way. She said that he threatened her with a knife, lifted her over a wall and raped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Is This England? | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Frogs. In Pueblo, Colo., the annual frog-jumping contest of the Cheese Knife Club was won by Dewey, who defeated Stassen, MacArthur, Bricker, Warren and Willkie. Jumper Roosevelt did not compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...First Phase. So for the first few days, at least, fighting on the Gustav Line would be a job of battering the enemy, feeling him out, making him commit his reserves to the wrong place. Possibly not even General Alexander could yet tell where he would finally thrust his knife to rip up the spine of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Into the Mountains | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...murder cases, detectives go wrong surprisingly often on the cause of death. Dr. Snyder says that they sometimes mistake a knife wound for a bullet hole and vice versa, often wrongly assume that a body found in the water was drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Elementary Murder | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...Federal payroll, that he is still sponsoring an amendment which would give Senate spoilsmen control of all Federal jobs paying more than $4,500 a year, and proved that he has a terrible temper. He had specifically denied only one Pearson charge: "I never pulled a knife on any Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Personal | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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