Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...double-spiral dance, claims Kelly, is a 6,000-year-old symbol of reincarnation, which the witches ardently believe in. Costume, obviously, is minimal: a white waist cord for first-degree witches, a red cord for second degree, and a magic knife called an othame. So far, not even Kelly has felt prepared to go for the highest degree, the green garter. Among other things, it involves a milder version of what Gardner called the "Great Rite," an act of ritual sexual intercourse. "Nobody in our coven," says Kelly, "has felt ready to take...
Breathing hard, a shabby old man climbed two flights to his flat in a Bronx slum. As he turned the key, he heard behind him a sudden pummel of racing feet. When he began to shout, somebody struck him powerfully five times in the left side with a knife, and as he fell to the floor of his kitchen, a flesh-colored hearing aid popped out of his ear and landed close to his face...
...artifacts may become a medium for energies of the past, and that in this way events and passions recur and prevail through time, is the key to a similar story, Juan Murana. The frail and senile widow of a famed bandit resurrects her "husband", in the form of his knife, to wreak vengence on an unjust landlord...
...stand on strip mining, a $200 million industry employing many of the state's 44,000 miners, is somewhat like proposing a ban on oil in Texas or oranges in Florida. Nevertheless, preaching that strip mining is a "cancer of the earth" that mutilates the hills "like a knife slash through a painting," Rockefeller supports the expansion of deep mining, a far less unsightly operation. "When I see one stripper working," he says, "I see three deep miners out of work." So do the mineowners-and that is one reason why they are solidly aligned behind Moore, a native...
...minute dive-bombing mission over An Xuyen province. "It was Cinerama and Coney Island wrapped into one as we hurtled toward the earth at 300 m.p.h., then, glued to the seat, soared skyward," says DeVoss. The Air Force had thoughtfully lent him a pistol, knife, rope, radio, parachute and other survival items. "The high point of the day was being able to give the two airsick bags back to the supply sergeant, unused...