Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell them apart... By now the pupil is completely distracted thanks to a toothache, but the professor persists. His lesson, a mixture of sophistry and flights of fancy, is incomprehensible. At last, in the climactic scene, he holds up an imaginary object and orders the girl to repeat "knife" in each of the Neo-Spanish idioms. But her pain has become unbearable, she cannot obey, and he stabs her to death with the invisible knife. His triumph is complete...
...Thank God for McGeorge Bundy and the courage that permits him to speak in plain, honest language to his former colleagues [May 7]. Every word he uttered sliced like a knife through the professors' tortured and specious reasoning...
...hand grenade. Special Forces Sergeant Horace Young, 34, who was already wounded in the leg, tried to bat the grenade away with his rifle butt. It exploded, tearing his arm to ribbons. Streaming blood, he staggered into the storeroom with the only weapon left to him: his Special Forces knife. There he found the Viet Cong grenadier, stabbed him and died. When Young's body was found hunched in the corner of the storeroom the following morning, the knife was clutched so tightly in his hand that it could not be removed...
...been revoked, Sherod drove recklessly from their tenement flat in Jersey City to a restaurant in Newark, N.J., where his wife worked as a waitress. There, Sherod got into a drunken argument with his wife, hustled the children out to the car. Moments later, he returned wielding a knife, threatened his wife and hit her, forced her to accompany him to the car. Said Mrs. Sherod's sister, who also worked in the restaurant: "He said he was going to kill the whole family and then come back and cut our throats." Half an hour later, Sherod, with...
...When you get alone, and you're sitting on the stool by yourself and somebody's behind you, and you hear the knife clicking, hot coffee being poured down your back, and you're alone-you really begin to feel: Why am I here? When is it going...