Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie era that also elevated Ronald Reagan, showed up to plead against changes in children's programs that she supports. Luscious Liz Taylor, newly svelte, and some weary turtles from the fifth-rate aquarium kept in the Commerce Department basement were enlisted to stave off the budget knife for their respective interests, the arts and sea life. The National Symphony fiddled through Rimsky-Korsakov last week to mellow members of Congress who must vote on endangered federal funds for the arts. Wherever one dines these days in Washington, there is, over the $50 (for two) lunches of shad...
...nonetheless. Part of her reserve is a learned, animal response to prying reporters. "I have a great respect for my privacy," she says, "and the only way I can keep myself private is by not being too open. I once opened up to Hedda Hopper, and she stuck a knife in my ribs. That taught...
...alarmed; there were three locks on the front door, there was no back door, and the apartment was 18 ft. above ground level. But as she went to check an open window, a bare-chested black man wearing an Arab-style kaffiyeh over his head pressed a knife to her throat. He ransacked the apartment, put pillowcases over both women's heads, and raped the friend...
While visiting his brother, he got involved in a quarrel with his brother's girlfriend, who seized a butcher knife and stabbed him in the abdomen. Suspect arrested...
...best defense against muggers and rapists is to avoid places where they might lurk. Common sense says never to walk alone at night or to pick up hitchhikers. If, however, you do suddenly feel a gun or cold knife against your neck, stay as calm as possible. "Try not to panic," says Captain Ephirne F. Leija of the Houston police department. "Do the best you can under a difficult situation. Above all, don't try to be a hero...