Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done before the child is six months old, he will suffer little inconvenience or pain. In the second six months bones start to become rigid and the operation becomes more difficult and painful. Thereafter manipulation may cause secondary injuries which the orthopedist may well avoid by discreet use of knife, chisel and mallet...
...Texas a black buck known as Lead Belly murdered a man. He sang a petition to Governor Pat Neff and was granted a pardon. Back in the Louisiana swamplands, where he was born Huddie Ledbetter, his knife made more trouble. He was in State Prison at Angola when John A. Lomax, eminent ballad collector, stopped by last summer and asked the warden if he could please hear Lead Belly sing...
...second petition and taken it to Louisiana's Governor Allen. Lead Belly was released from prison on Aug. 1. Month later when Mr. Lomax was sitting in a Texas hotel he felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Lead Belly, saying: "Boss, here I is." His knife bulged in his pocket. In his hand was a rickety green-painted guitar held together by string...
...slaughterhouse, in the dim bluish light of the knocking pens, a Negro swings his three-pound hammer. Crack! On the steer's skull midway between the scared eyes the blow falls. Great shackles swing down to lift the limp stunned animal, head down, rump high. The short curved knife bites deep into the bristled neck seeking the throbbing artery. Into great cans oozes the dark red blood, 70 Ib. to the steer. . . . Pigs skewered by the feet to an overhead track circle around the killing room. Stuck pigs upside down do not squeal. A knife flashes...
...Lecky, pursued by some imminent horror, went to ground in the basement of the department store. Gradually, as he heard no sounds of pursuit, he got up enough courage to seek a better hiding place. His first weapons of defense were a kitchen knife, a fire-axe. Literate but not handy, he found his way to the sporting-goods department, got a supply of guns but had to read the instruction book before he could load one. His first shelter he contrived out of a platform of doors placed over an open compartment. Later he fortified a lavatory, provisioned...