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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was some kind of disturbance inside the Store 24 which spilled out onto the street, and allegedly the suspect pulled a knife and slashed the other man on the neck area," he said...

Author: By Karen M. Paik, | Title: Store 24 Worker Changed in Attack | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Pasquarello also said that Yeager apparently had the knife on his person...

Author: By Karen M. Paik, | Title: Store 24 Worker Changed in Attack | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...holding a knife. It was quite a small knife; I would say the whole knife itself was only about five inches, and the blade looked about two inches...

Author: By Karen M. Paik, | Title: Store 24 Worker Changed in Attack | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Sedaris reserves his highest, most poetic register of speech, the one in which wheelchairs are called "electric chariots," to downplay the danger he faced, on and off the road, from a larcenous, knife-wielding stud to a dildo collector...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: not for the clothes-minded | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...will apparently not change. Soldiers still spent hours building sand tables, miniature re-creations of the battlefield built in the dirt. EXFOR leaders still carried plenty of thumbtacks and acetate overlay maps to use as back-ups during the inevitable computer snafus. And commanders still insisted that once the "knife fight" of close-in combat began, soldiers must revert to traditional hand signals and radio commands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WIRED FOR WAR | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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