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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found to give them homes, 1,000 troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division stood guard over 4,000 Cubans last week to prevent a repetition of the Aug. 5 riot in which 16 camp officials and 42 Cubans were injured, one fatally. In Fort McCoy, Wis., homosexual attacks and knife fights have broken out among the 5,300 Cubans housed in the camp; many are refugees under 18 who face continued idleness in what they view as a prison unless good Samaritans can be found who will assume legal guardianship as foster parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Welcome Wears Thin | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

Strauss, slicing a salami labeled Freedom Another poster shows Strauss as a butcher (he is a butcher's son), sharpening knife under the caption, "Castrate all libertines." West German courts have outlawed a caricature of the burly Bavarian with a machine gun, and the caption line, "Strauss, the Hitler of today." Strauss is reportedly ready to bring defamation charges against a rock group for a song that contains the ugly refrain: "Franz Josef the pig, Franz Josef the old pig, Franz Josef the lusting swine." When a local prosecutor charged that the song was insulting to Strauss, the band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Polemics and Poisonous Blossoms | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...N.Y.F.E. (pronounced knife), which is located adjacent to its parent, the New York Stock Exchange, is the first major diversification in the N.Y.S.E.'s 188-year history. The new exchange aims to become an important international center for trading in financial futures, which have been pioneered by the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's International Monetary Market. Essentially, financial futures are contracts to buy or sell Treasury securities, Government-backed mortgages, or foreign currencies at a preset price at a specified future date. Says N.Y.F.E. Chairman John Phelan: "Few commodities have as much potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Game in Town | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...shower stall. An attractive, restless blond, whose search for sexual fulfillment will lead her to an ominous rented room. A man, whose schizophrenic lust turns him into a knife-wielding killer in a cheap wig and dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knife of Brian | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

Dalton has a husky, late-night and last-drink voice that can curl under and caress a ballad, or slide, like a gravity knife, to a quick sharp point that draws blood from a backbeat. She writes, or co-writes, most of her material, making sure to stash away in the lyrics plenty of shingles and cobwebs, like the recollection of "ol' Dottie" in her Beer Drinkin' Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs from a Loose Shingle | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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