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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...stout handle with a piece of jagged, rusted metal still attached to one end, by jumping the fence into a restricted area and taking it from behind a tool shed. From the power plant I stole a short length of steel pipe and from the kitchen a table knife. I sharpened the table knife on cement, the way I had a similar one at Danbury when I learned from the authorities that an informer had told the FBI there was a contract out on me and I declined official protection in favor of my own method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Watergate's Sphinx Speaks | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...could to cope with the emergency. Today he is worried about what has happened to his town. Said he: "This used to be a pretty unified community. Now it's divided between pro-nuke and antinuke. There's a tension here you can cut with a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Legacy off Three Mile Island | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

Thus, again and again, the landscape tables refer to something other than landscape. Knife in the Rock, 1970, for example, suggests the pointed blade of a Japanese tanto (short sword) impressed in the stone, as though the granite were wax. But, in general, landscape is the sole image, and its core is the stone itself, with its obdurate beauty, dark crystalline structure and archaic associations with ritual and shelter. As a result, a piece like Double Red Mountain, 1969, functions both as a highly stylized image of Zen landscape and as a more Western object, tinged with surrealist fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sense and Subtlety in Stone | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

Hasty Pudding Theatricals regrets that members of our audience have been offended by the character of Edgar Foo Yung in A Little Knife Music. The Hasty Pudding Show is intended to be purely funny and enjoyable for the audience. If any member of the audience leaves the show with a bad feeling, we view that as a failure on our part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Resemblance | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

Members of the Asian American Association (AAA) will demonstrate tonight and tomorrow night at performances of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals musical, "A Little Knife Music," because they object to the character Edgar Foo Young as an Asian stereotype...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asian Americans Will Protest Peacefully at Hasty Pudding | 3/14/1980 | See Source »

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