Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though she is 22, several years older than her counterparts in the East. She finishes a cigarette, slips into her long gloves, and braces for a session with the photographer. She is nervous. Her parents are nervous. "You could cut the tension in our house this afternoon with a knife," says her father, Alfred Deloach Martin Jr., who is in what Texans call R. and I.-ranching and investments. In a few minutes, 125 guests are scheduled to arrive for a dinner in Mimi's honor given by Gene Bishop, an old family friend and chairman of the Mercantile...
...kills two men-his lieutenant Zuniga and Carmen's husband García (a character in Mérim&233;e's story). By the time Carmen's turn comes, he has nothing left to lose, no emotion to spend, and he plunges a knife into the kneeling woman's back as if he were an executioner doing his job. For her part, Carmen is an even more explicitly sexual creature than she is usually portrayed. She sings the famous Habanera while engaging in some erotic byplay with a cigar, thrusting it into...
...Fork and went swaggering around the Kentucky election grounds. Whatever the reason, the furies were unambiguously loosed on a whisky-sodden day 100 years ago next August. One of McCoy's sons taunted an unarmed Ellison Hatfield, and Ellison's riposte was intemperate and unprintable. Seventeen knife thrusts and one revolver shot later, Ellison lay mortally wounded. The eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye retaliation began: three McCoys were captured by Hatfields under the command of Ellison's brother Devil Anse, tied to a pawpaw bush, and shot to death. The skirmishing ended with the century...
Once known as Cap the Knife for his budget-cutting zeal in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Caspar Weinberger, 64, has pressed with equal relish for whopping increases in the military budget. This has led to a dichotomy in his performance as Secretary of Defense: detractors say he has fallen prey to the Pentagon's shopping-list mentality and has been uncreative in setting strategic priorities; supporters say he is faithfully carrying out Reagan's policy of rearming America. Both sides are right...
...when you're not looking they stick a needle in your arm or a tube up your ass. And they're always balling the doctors, particularly when you're in pain and you need them. Used to lie in my hospital bed and wish I had a big bowie knife...