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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

What he has no taste for at all is gore. He has no interest in maneuvering unclad women into proximity with a kitchen knife or in splattering blood across the screen in colorful patterns. He handles death the old-fashioned way -- discreetly -- and suspense, for him, is a creation of sounds and shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil Is an Outsider | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...cooperating with her assailant -- in this case by offering him a condom -- risks the charge that she invited the assault. In Austin, Texas, the first grand jury that heard the case against Joel Rene Valdez may have concluded just that, refusing to bring charges against Valdez, who wielded a knife during the attack. Valdez apparently told the police -- and the local media -- that because his alleged victim had the presence of mind to provide him with a prophylactic in mid-rape, she clearly must have consented to sex. It is generally assumed the first grand jury concurred with the argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas, A Grim Question of Survival | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...first-year student was assaulted with a knife early Thursday morning while walking from the Yard to Store...

Author: By Ivy A. Wang, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: First-Year Assaulted In Square | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

Thorne said he heard a switch-blade pop open and saw the man swing at him with a knife. Thorne threw up his hands to block his face, and was cut across three fingers...

Author: By Ivy A. Wang, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: First-Year Assaulted In Square | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

...video showed you in a business suit ordering men around--feminism?--but for every "Express Yourself" there is a "Hanky Panky" ("I don't want you to thank me/Just spank me..."). And for all your talk about how the sex you portray is all based on consent--well, the knife at your throat above doesn't look like consent, and, for that matter, neither do the ropes. So let's call a spade a spade: You're a fraud...

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: An Open Letter to Madonna | 11/6/1992 | See Source »

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