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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poster was colorful: the slogan was written with bright red ink and dramatically punctuated with a knife dripping blood...

Author: By Jerome L. Rappaport, | Title: Hawker Protests Phoenix Decision On Selling Policy | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

...chuckled as he said this, however, and proffered a bandaged hand for inspection. "See this hand?" he questioned. "My knife accidentally slipped last week. It kept me awake all night...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Felix the Cobbler Heals Broken Soles | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

...Robertson's eerie guitar riffs on Planet Waves have been replaced by Scarlet Rivera's soothing, melodic violin line. Planet Waves was a depressing album--even Wedding Song which was cited by Newsweek as evidence of Dylan's new "mellowness" contained disturbing lines about love which "cut like a knife," about loving someone "more than madness." Blood on the Tracks was a transition, containing some of the bitterness of Planet Waves, but, particularly with Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, it pointed towards Desire. Now, no longer "preoccupied with his vengeance," he can concentrate on experimenting with a variety...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: To the Valley Below | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Hurry Up. As Nilsson lay on his back, the other pusher repeatedly stabbed him. After each knife thrust into the board, the camera was stopped, and simulated blood (water and red food dye) was sprinkled on his chest. But one thrust split the board. Frightened, the assailant, played by Senior Dan Johnson, 17, cried out: "Ned, are you all right?" Nilsson replied: "Yeah, I think so. It doesn't feel too good. Let's hurry up." When the filming ended, he tried to get up but fell backward and passed out. His friends noticed that the simulated blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Special Effects | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...outset News Reporter Douglas Glazier, a police-beat veteran, sensed the possibility of a railroading. The nomadic bikers had been picked up elsewhere on another offense; they were convicted of the Albuquerque murder after a motel maid fingered them and testified she had been raped, tortured with a hot knife and made to watch the killing. Glazier rounded up gasoline credit-card receipts backing the bikers' claim that they had not been in Albuquerque at the time. Then a former policeman admitted to Glazier that the maid had told him she had lied. News Reporter Stephen Cain found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Three Fights for Justice | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

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