Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of their frustration has been a growing political polarization. Two weeks ago, Seregni narrowly escaped serious injury when an assassin lunged at him with a knife at a campaign rally. On the same day, a twelve-year-old boy was shot and killed in a campaign fracas. At a pro-Pacheco rally, someone tossed a live but harmless green snake at the speaker, who pitched it back onto the heads of his listeners. Such political turmoil was once almost unknown in the little land that was frequently called the "Switzerland of South America" and was noted for its hospitality...
...Woman with Pears-1909; 21. Portrait of Ambroise Vollard-1909-10; 22. Le Mandoliniste-1911; 23. Ma Jolie-1911-12; 24. Le Torero, Ceret-1911; 25. Still Life with Chair Caning-1912; 26. Still Life-1912; 27. La Suze-1912-13; 28. Still Life with Fruit, Glass, Knife and Newspaper-1914; 29. Green Still Life-1914; 30. Harlequin-1915; 31. Three Musicians...
...home-estimated to be twelve square miles-as a preserve that will be off limits to loggers, ranchers, miners and other invaders. But even well-intentioned visitors from the 20th century may undermine any future anthropological studies of the tribe; gifts of a bow and arrow, a metal bolo knife and sugar from Dafal and the investigating scientists are already moving the Tasaday out of the Stone...
...police. The thief tried to cut across fields, but was finally caught cowering behind a heap of manure. The boy identified himself as Mario Roymans, 21. In his small apartment above a restaurant where he worked as a waiter, the lost Vermeer was found under his bed. Roymans' knife had sliced an inch or so of canvas around the edge of the painting, and areas of paint had flaked away. Rijksmuseum Director Arthur van Schendel reported sadly: "I think it can be restored, but it will never again be as it was before...
...journey to nowhere, Sophie caroms off a number of archetypes over-familiar to readers of the urban novel: eunuchoid males, knife-edged women's libertarians, garrulous old leftists, jittery blacks. To make Sophie's affliction even more puzzling, she is given an external symbol-a bite by a cat that may or may not be rabid. Is the plague external? Or does it lie within...