Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...piece to the inner puzzle turned out to be Caspar Weinberger, 63, who from the beginning was almost certain to enter the Cabinet. "Cap the Knife" Weinberger acquired his fearsome nickname as a budget slasher in 1968 when he was Reagan's finance director in California, and he embellished his reputation as Nixon's OMB director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Weinberger is a devoted advocate of the inner circle idea, having worked under a similar arrangement with Reagan in Sacramento...
...Well, 'e's one o' them chinamen, like as you see scuttlin' about them odd ships in the 'arbour--pieces o'junk, if you ask me" --"A Little Knife Music," Hasty Pudding Theatricals...
While this is the year of Shogun, it is also the year of Edgar Foo Yung, Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan, and Singapore Sue. These racist depictions of Asians have returned to the screen and stage as vehicles of "sophisticated humor" in full technological splendor. Hasty Pudding's "A Little Knife Music" and Warner Brother's "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu" featured stereotypic, sinister and subhuman Asian males (played by white actors) who lust after white women. Last month, Hasty Pudding offered us the female counterparts: Singapore Sue (so sweet and soft and gentle, my favorite Oriental) and Madame...
...companion left the car and argued with the officers, one of whom began struggling with Lin, the newspaper reported. Lin had a knife and the officer had a nightstick with which he beat Lin on the temple, Lin's companion, T.C. Chen, said...
Policy. Caspar ("Cap the Knife") Weinberger, head of Reagan's budget policy group, said the new boss would hold federal spending in fiscal 1981, which began Oct. 1, to $620 billion, about $25 billion below the levels contemplated by Carter. Reagan's advisers accepted a proposal by Texas Senator John Tower to add $3 billion to the $157 billion in military spending recommended by Carter this fiscal year. Military pay would be raised an extra 2%, on top of the 11.7% increase already moving toward enactment. Tower also advocated an increase in military outlays of 10% a year...