Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Erendira's passive expertise as a prostitute makes her famous and her grandmother rich; soldiers and senators pay dearly for her favors. Only a young man named Ulysses has the key to her chaste heart. He will free Erendira by killing Grandma-he will try, anyway, with a knife, explosives and a ton of rat poison-but the tenacious crone is as hard to dispatch as Rasputin, or the Roadrunner, or a nightmare of repression...
Chester Hickle came back in and offered a stranger a stick and a knife, saying whittling keeps you calm and keeps you out of trouble. The stranger had been reading the newspaper, the Marshall Mountain Wave. Correspondent Sybel Smiley, writing the news from Nubbin Hill, had noted that "we have some very muddy roads again. There isn't any bottom to anywhere now. The sun is trying to shine some, which looks good." Correspondent Rosie Ragland from over at Red Oak reported that "Pearl Davis and I purchased 15 hens from Mary Redman Saturday night." For the record, Ragland...
Angus bull, the long, tall kind, from Jim Hawkins' farms." The stranger put down the newspaper, took Chester Hickle's knife and whittled like a fool...
...used so infrequently that the muscles have visibly wasted away. Although the nails are beautifully manicured, the skin on her hand is paper dry. Daubing on lotion simply hurts too much. She looks weary. It is hard to sleep, she says, when "you feel as if you have a knife slicing into...
...murals is a scene of two men fighting against a background of bright red, and represents conflict. Valtierra's grandfather came to the U.S. because he got into a fight with the son of a judge in his Mexican village and, after the man drew a knife on him, shot him. Upon arriving in the U.S. he worked for the Union Pacific railroad; was shanghaied to Alaska and was a stunt man for D.W. Griffith...