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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...forced to challenge you to a duel at ten paces. My choice of weapons, asparagus spears. It is unthinkable that anyone, even wearing Coke-bottle lenses, could have the audacity to refer to the magnificent Israeli strawberry as scrawny. A bowl of six has to be eaten with knife and fork, for only Martha Raye could possibly eat a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1971 | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

Steven Rosen '74, one of the marshals who grabbed Zorza, said later, "I'm sorry. It was a mistake. He had a fork and knife...

Author: By David R. Caploe, Garrett Epps, and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Pro-War Teach-In Dissolves in Turmoil; Administration Warns of Full Discipline | 3/27/1971 | See Source »

...that touched off the battle. "I saw two Hell's Angels come up to a Breed and try to take his colors [jacket and club emblem] off. The Breed started yelling for help. They got his jacket down to his elbows; then one of the Angels pulled a knife from his belt and stabbed the Breed two or three times in the stomach. He fell screaming to the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Hell's Angels 4, Breed 1 | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

Dave Corwin, head of the three-man private guard force, later admitted: "We expected trouble, but nothing like that." As soon as he heard the scuffling, Corwin dashed into the auditorium. "The only knife I saw was the one coming at me," he recalled. "I nailed the guy with my nightstick and that was the last I saw of him. Anyone who put up a fight, we'd knock against the wall, throw down the stairs and out the door. That would take the fight out of them." Added off-duty Patrolman Thomas Burton: "I tried to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Hell's Angels 4, Breed 1 | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...During the filming of Scott's TV series, East Side/West Side, Jim Aubrey, then president of CBS-TV, summoned Scott and Producer David Susskind to his office and informed them that the episode they were working on required a happy ending. Scott peeled an apple with a favorite switchblade knife as he listened to Aubrey deliver his spiel. Then, glaring malevolently at his boss, he said, "That's a lot of bull." The network president quickly retreated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: George C. Scott: Tempering a Terrible Fire | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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