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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depressed for a joke, but it was real. Then my friend told me, "You're crazy. You've got to talk to a psychiatrist. She told me about the center, so I came to Mary Paul and Geraldine. I was getting scared of myself. My boyfriend gave me a knife. I still have it, in a purple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...total. Only a twisted 20-ft. section of the plane's fuselage remained intact. The stricken craft left trees burning and strewn like pickup sticks in its wake. The DC-8's debris and the soldiers' personal effects were scattered in all directions. A boot remained upright. A knife hung from a web belt. A stuffed bear lay in the snow. Two tiny dresses meant for a trooper's daughter somehow escaped the flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the Screaming Eagles | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...Africa, too, Fair Derek spoke well on the apartheid to-do. Well, Derek, we salute your private position; But what of divestment and better conditions? Your long-winded letters and funding for study Just don't pack the punch of withdrawal of money. To Harvard alum Cap Weinberger (the "Knife") A few tips on your country's "quality of life": Children are hungry, families grow cold While merchants of death can't spend all their gold. Watch out, you old grad from long past ('38)--To Managua we send you for a Sandinist date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Hit List | 12/19/1985 | See Source »

...which made it sound as if she were trying to cough up a large and unwieldy insect. Unfortunately, she found her shorter, hairier traveling companion a source of boundless levity, and by the time we landed it was all I could do to keep from plunging my plastic cheese knife into...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Thanks for the Blues | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

...press tickets and head for a cup of coffee, but the people waiting at the ticket booth do not look like the sort who would believe me if I told them I had important business ahead: the cold may be stabbing, but at least it's not packing a knife...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Stallone's Simplistic Struggle | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

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