Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stoker's tale, Dracula is destroyed in a combined Anglo-American gesture: Jonathan Marker, an Englishman, decapitates Dracula with his great kukri knife in the same moment that Quincey Morris, a young Texan, drives his bowie knife into Dracula's heart. Stakes are used against vampires in Stoker's novel, but only against ravishingly attractive females...
This past year my dearest friend has been undergoing treatment for cancer. First they mutilated her with a knife; next they burned her with radiation; at present she is being poisoned with chemotherapy. It's the best 20th century medicine...
...Congress, there were mixed feelings among Israel's traditional supporters. "You can cut the gloom up here with a knife," said Illinois Senator Charles Percy. "There is great skepticism about this new Premier." Percy felt that concern would translate into greater senatorial support for moves by Carter to put pressure on Israel to go to Geneva. Washington does have a number of exploitable pressure points ?most notably, the outstanding Israeli requests for military aid. Jerusalem wants American assistance in building its new Chariot tanks, and it wants F-16 fighters as eventual replacements for its Phantoms. On the nonmilitary...
...thesis they had lost faith in demanded some respite. Sure, the post-thesis partum depression also required therapy. But Kojak? It made sense, convoluted sense, to Long John. It was his (and Bentley's, as well, he suspected) life-line. Everyone needed one that spring. One friend, Mac the Knife, occupied his evenings setting endurance records at local bars, jumping over parking meters and scheming up wild fiscal take-overs of global publishing companies. (The consensus was that Mac had gone crazy.) Or take Harpo: his spring a nightmare of lost sure-bets and misplayed poker hands. Still other...
...lead singer of the Dead Boys gyrated in a rent pair of blue jeans occasionally flashing one pallid cheek to the congregation. As he crooned in a raspy baritone, he slid one hand into his pocket and drew out an enormous Bowie knife, which he held to the guitarist's throat in a skinnyboned imitation of a hard-ass punk. After picking his teeth with the knife, the Boy tired of that toy, only to pick out a new one for the next number: a pink plastic pleasure machine, with which he caressed his bony pelvis in mock ecstasy between...