Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the attack, one of the assailants pulled out a knife, which was later recovered by the Cambridge Police Department in the bushes, Harvard University police said yesterday...
...were given ten minutes to leave their homes in what soldiers told them was the final cleansing. Once the process began, there was utter chaos. Soldiers, they say, went on a looting spree, stealing everything they could carry, engaging in indiscriminate beatings, raping dozens of women, holding children at knife point until mothers bought back their lives with hidden Deutch Marks and, finally, separating all men between the ages of 16 and 60 from their families before sending the women, elderly and children through dangerous mountain tracks that claimed the lives of at least 20 refugees...
...sectarian haters who suck whiskey and resentment in Belfast's bars, and they accord respect. Victor Kelly is a young swaggerer, a gifted thug with the flash and cold nerve to force a terrified man of the opposing tribe to his knees, then cut his throat with a filleting knife. Kelly's bunch are Protestants, and the enemy tribe Catholics, though it matters not a Mass or a damn because pure enmity on both sides, cherished and nurtured from childhood, now and forevermore, is the city's religion...
...exile, deeply versed in the politics of failure." Of a newly alcoholic reporter who covers the killings, McNamee observes, "He had somehow acquired the psychic credentials of the drinker, the sad, proclaiming spirit." There is an eerie exactness in these passages that pins meaning to the wall with a knife blade. Now and then, as in his evocation of a mother's "low-keyed and costly cries of love," his reach for the stinging, pivotal word--that "costly" fails the "huh?" test--produces a clinker. But McNamee is a writer, a name to mark down...
About 8 a.m. on May 28, the last day for students to move out of their houses, Sinedu Tadesse '96 used a buck knife to stab her sleeping roommate Trang Phuong Ho '96 to death...