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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the victim was released from the hospital, Cambridge police charged him with assault by means of a deadly weapon, a charge which indicates the man had never used the knife but had exposed it during the incident...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Black Beaten | 5/4/1976 | See Source »

Cambridge police alleged that the most likely sequence of events began with an argument followed by an attack by the four white youths, while the black man unsuccessfully wielded a knife in defense. None of the men were Harvard students...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Black Beaten | 5/4/1976 | See Source »

...life, and I'm living it in the middle of a Jewish joke!" But what Portnoy overlooks in his complaint is the fact that there is another person trapped in that joke-Sophie Portnoy, the archetypal castrating Jewish mother, standing over her little boy with a stainless steel bread knife when he refuses to eat. The joke is a funny one, no doubt-and by elevating a stand-up routine into a comic art form, Philip Roth gave popular American culture the definitive stereotype of the Jewish mother. As for the Jewish grandmother, she is merely Sophie Portnoy writ large...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Sophie Portnoy's Complaint | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

...five grievances I submitted on February 17 was a safety grievance pertaining to the cutting of frozen ice cream. In the smaller dining rooms of North House (Holmes and Moors) the cooks must cut the 24-pound large ice cream cylinder into two squat cylinders with a sharp knife as it rotates. My grievance stated: "[The blocks of ice cream] are very hard and slippery as well as frozen, making them hard to cut. An accident while doing this could kill whoever is doing it. I am asking that this process be stopped immediately." But on March 3 the manager...

Author: By Sherman L. Holcombe, | Title: Blows Against the Empire | 4/6/1976 | See Source »

Jules and Jim at 5:45 and 9:25 p.m. and Knife in the Water...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

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