Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later, John Osceola, released in custody of his white attorney, was allowed to explain himself, through an interpreter, on the radio. Said he: "He my cousin, but he bad Indian too. I kill him by cuttem belly with knife." Listeners wondered whether the police had arrested him for the wrong crime...
...Leftist Government immediately ordered two more classes to the colors. Each man drafted was ordered to "bring to the People's Army a pair of shoes, blanket, plate, knife, fork and spoon." The Leftist surprise offensive on Dec. 19, which captured Teruel, was the first major victory of the new People's Army. In canceling that victory last week General Franco did not himself win a major victory. For the expenditure of two months' time many lives and much materiel- none of which he could well spare-all he had to show was a wider Teruel salient...
About the time that Peter Stnyvesant's $24 island and began to realize there was something west of the Alleghenies other than a horse trading center on the Mississippi and one or two gold fields in Alaska, Americans carried a jack-knife a lump of wax, and a package of miscellaneous stamps for trading purposes in their pants pocket, bought a Tootsic Roll at the corner store, and went to "The Great Train Robbery...
...replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume: no leopard skin, but a serviceable breechclout, a knife...
...feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, was rushed to a hospital at Kearny, N. J., where doctors cut through his chest wall, opened the pericardium or heart envelope so that the heart lay visibly beating before their eyes, and delicately extracted a three-inch piece of broken knife blade. They took care to let no blood rush out, quickly closed the heart wound with three stitches...