Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crime levels have remained constant over the last 20 years, this year witnessed a number of particularly troubling incidents on and around the Harvard campus. First, in October, a student was assaulted on Flagg Street--just a few paces from his residence in Mather House. He was threatened at knife point, beaten and left with a cut over his right eye and multiple bruises on his face and head. Just two weeks later, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) revealed that a female student jogging on Memorial Drive was raped in broad daylight. This spring, there was an attempted sexual...
When Tierney refused, one of the men punched him in the face. He tried to fight back, but the five men began to beat him repeatedly and one of the assailants pulled out a knife...
...straight arrow, sensitive and moral. He didn't want to hurt his brother," notes Father Melvin La Follette, an Episcopal priest and a friend. "But at the same time, he was scrupulous. He wanted to do the right thing." David once trekked 40 miles to return an Indian flint knife to the place he found it after he learned it was wrong to move...
Where the story breaks down, though, it breaks down in a big way. That's almost certainly the case with what Schliemann called Priam's Treasure, a group of spectacular objects he found in 1873. "I cut out the treasure with a large knife," Schliemann wrote, "which it was impossible to do without the very greatest exertion and the most fearful risk of my life, for the great fortification wall, beneath which I had to dig, threatened every moment to fall down upon...
...then against it; he favored comprehensive health-care reform, then he dismissed the idea that there was a health-care crisis. He has fought alongside ideologues enough to learn not to trust them; in 1985, when he believed Reagan was serious about cutting the deficit, he actually took his knife to Social Security--only to be abandoned by Reagan at the urging of Jack Kemp, and to sacrifice his Senate majority as a result...