Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quibbles over the whore's price and departs in a rage. In swift succession, he is conned and savagely beaten up in a game of three-card monte, and thrown out of a fleabag hotel by a seedy clerk. He pawns his gold ring and buys a "survival knife." When a black pimp tries to mug him, Edmond rewards his assailant with a series of brutal kicks. After bedding a waitress pickup, he sinks the knife into her and kills her in a transfer of fury. Jailed, he is forced to perform fellatio by his black cellmate. Implausibly...
...October 9 brawl, and an unrelated earlier incident in which two Cambridge residents threatened a Pennypacker resident with a knife, had sparked a series of meetings between students and Freshman Dean Henry C. Moses who solicited security suggestions from the undergraduates...
...always carries a pistol, a knife and a hand grenade on his belt, Hobeika was the most feared Phalangist in Lebanon. He had taken part in the Tel Zaatar massacre and in attacks on the rivals of Bashir Gemayel. The Israelis knew Hobeika and his followers as ruthless, brutal security men, and knew they did not constitute a disciplined military force...
...connection between personal tragedies and larger social ills. The answers to these problems are not apparent and perhaps less so than they have been in less threatening times. But the despair which once prompted down trodden characters to "spit in the face of these badlands" and "take a knife and cut this pain from my heart" on previous albums now produces little of this feisty desire to combat debilitating odds. Pleads the jailed autoworker in "Johnny 99": "Then won't you sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time And let 'em shave...
September 18, 3:13 a.m.--A Cambridge resident walking on Mt. Auburn St. near Tommy's Lunch was confronted by three white men. The men threatened him verbally and claimed to have a knife. The victim fled and called the police. Officers stopped two suspects near Banks St., but the victim refused to press charges...