Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jeanette Blakes, 28, was given a 20-to 60-year sentence for shooting to death an acquaintance who, Blakes says, attacked her with a knife. She has served six years in the Dwight Correctional Center, Illinois' women's prison. "What do I miss most here? My freedom," Blakes says. The abstraction sounds palpable. "Just my freedom. Not so much being caressed, or anything like that. You take away a person's freedom, you take away everything...
Susan, a Massachusetts housewife and part-time secretary, had herpes for six years and was eight months pregnant when she read in a book that her disease was linked to cervical cancer and could damage babies during birth. "I wanted to take a knife and cut the skin right off me," she says. "I was just so scared about my baby." A healthy girl was born, and for six months Susan was "hysterical" about protecting the youngster, now 3½. "She is probably the most paranoid kid on the block," says Susan, because of elaborate warnings and precautions. Susan douses...
...control, leading to a breakdown in the economic system. Said Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the recent Versailles economic summit: "We are moving from crisis to catastrophe." Warns Paul McCracken, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon: "The world economy is balanced on a knife-edge and could easily plunge into another era of international economic disintegration...
...night, one of these guys stole an ounce of cocaine. He stayed up three days and nights shooting the stuff every hour or so. On the third night about 3 a.m., I was awakened and looked down to see this guy with an eight-inch hunting knife, cursing and snarling at me. He said he knew somebody was up on the platform with me and that we were talking about...
Later after these events were retold innumerable times, there were rumors that someone had pulled a knife on someone else and that a third person's mother had been punched in the chops by an over eager tyke she had tried to restrain. The police had eventually arrived and cleared the field carting away Silverstein and Thompson who gave each other quite a bruising before they were torn apart...