Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I heard that the U.S. was going to let 15,000 Cubans into the country and leave 450 Haitians in Guantanamo, I felt like someone had stuck me with a knife," says a 17-year-old boy. "This is a very cruel situation." (U.S. military officials will not allow the children to be quoted by name.) When Attorney General Janet Reno announced the new Cuban policy on May 3, dozens of furious Haitian teens first tried to organize a hunger strike with the younger children, then went on a rampage, pelting soldiers with rocks and setting tents on fire...
...Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing act of skill the picture itself is, done in 1618 by a 19-year-old boy who wanted to display his total control over surface texture, form and light, from the transparency of the oil in which the eggs swim to the knife's curved shadow on a bowl to the marvelous fugue of circles and ellipses, melon and cooking vessels, that fills the lower third of the canvas...
...only thing the suspect had was a steak knife in his inside pocket, Johnson said...
...entire theater effortlessly as she marches in like a Norma Desmond and seizes the scene. In the play's brassiest moment, she lies dying, strapped to a bed, awaiting a last ditch operation. Dr. Harmon dons his bird-like leather mask while Sarah, now a nursemaid, polishes an enormous knife. In a fit of pain, Elizabeth convulses and screams. As her bed descends beneath the stage, a beam of light illuminates her body and loud religious music plays. The scene is flashy and gratuitous, but its combination of technical and acting bravado make it the play's most expressive...
...leader of the cult suspected in theMar. 20 nerve gas attackin the Tokyo subways died from knife wounds he received yesterday. Hideo Murai, thehead of the Aum Shinrikyo cult's chemical research division, had appeared on Japanese television almost daily since thegas attacksto deny that the cult had anything to do with them. He was attacked yesterday by Hiroyuki Jo, a member of a right-wing group who told police that he was seeking revenge for the subway attack...