Word: knifing
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...space that measures 20 ft. by 20 ft. The house, on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota, has one tiny window with a plastic pane. It is made of Sheetrock and cheap wood siding. In winter the frigid South Dakota wind tears through it like a knife. When it rains, its dirt and sawdust floor becomes a swamp. Now, in a sweltering late summer, flies swarm in and out with impunity...
Though the scar from the knife still tingles before it rains, Seles has made a full physical recovery. She has even grown an inch--to 5 ft., 10 1/2 in.--and that seems to have given her even more leverage. The psychological scars, of course, were much harder to get over. She spent countless hours with sports psychologist Jerry Russell May, but it was finally Mark McCormack, the head of the all-powerful International Management Group, who cajoled her out of her isolation. Of the stabbing, Seles says, "I've put the whole thing in a box. If I need...
About 8 a.m. on May 28, the last day for students to move out of their houses, Sinedu Tadesse '96 stabbed her roommate Trang Phuong Ho '96 to death with a knife in Ho's bedroom...
...climbing the stairway of Norman Bates' creepy old house, his cautious tread accompanied by a few high-pitched notes in the violins, pregnant with mystery and menace. As he reaches the landing, a door flies open in a glint of flashing steel: suddenly the strings shriek rhythmically, as the knife blade slashes down and the stricken cop topples backward to his death in a symphony of pizzicato cellos and basses. We not only see his death; we hear it as well...
...hearing conducted by red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy, for example, Ellis observed: "McCarthy has the slim hips of an athlete, a thick trunk and shoulders like a buffalo. Almost lacking a neck, his huge head seems perched on his shoulders. His mouth is long and thin, like a knife-gash in a melon...