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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officers, Spivey, was later accused in a separate case of ramming his can into an unarmed man who had already been shot (see above). In the Taylor case, Spivey used a lock-blade knife, illegal under state law. He was promoted to investigator after the Taylor case. The trial is still going...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: When the Tough Get Going | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...private houses or when royal ladies are present." They think longingly of the right public school, the right regiment, the right club (Whites, if possible, or Boodles, or Pratt's, if you must). They dread the fatal slip, the moment when they might, for example, eat asparagus with knife and fork: Use your fingers, idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Good Snob Nowadays Is Hard to Find | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...that because the children and their parents were here. But he just left the room and told everyone to leave. Then he told me to get back in bed and that we were going to make love. I said no. But he had the .38 and a knife and hit me. I got in and we did it. My nose was still bleeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wife Beating: The Silent Crime | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...bedroom light came on, blinding Young for a moment. She saw fractured images. A butcher knife shining against her roommate's throat. Her roommate's pinched, ashen face. A man in a blue nylon jacket and sneakers holding the knife. The stranger ordered Young to turn over onto her stomach and keep her face to the wall. For three hours on that cool night three months ago, he repeatedly raped and sodomized Young as her roommate lay trembling on the floor beside them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rape: The Sexual Weapon | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

Young did not resist. Through a blur of pain and fear, feeling the blade of his knife scraping up and down her back, she tried to keep a conversation going. "I quickly decided that if I lived through this, I was going to know as much about him as possible," recalls Young, 36, an emergency-room nurse who had often treated victims of rape but never imagined it could happen to her. "I kept putting my hands all over him, trying to feel for moles or scars or some identifying mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rape: The Sexual Weapon | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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