Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hello. In Bristol, England, Butcher William Eddy, arrested for brandishing a meat saw and a carving knife on High Street, declared that he was just waving to a friend...
...hole in the head is one of the oldest operations in medical history. Some half a million years ago, Stone Age medicine men were treating their patients by trephining (cutting out a circular piece of the skull). Evidence of their flint-knife gouging can still be seen in prehistoric skulls. Witch doctors in Melanesia and northern Africa still perform similar operations to cure insanity (a hole in the head is a handy exit for demons...
...Received the European Recovery Program bill from the Foreign Relations Committee. The bill bore a strange financing device. Colorado's Eugene Millikin, who will later handle the Republican knife on taxes, devised a method to give ERP all of the $5.3 billion needed for its first year of operation and also have several billions left over for tax slicing. It was a neat bookkeeping trick: $3 billion of ERP's cost will be charged against 1948's books, to be met out of the estimated $7.5 billion 1948 surplus, leaving only $2.3 billion to be charged against...
Chances are you'll never glimpse a boiled shirt on local ski slopes, but 3-minute sweatpants, dunked in a pot of wax and knife-edged beneath a mattress, may double as ski pants for the well-dressed fan of the near future...
...lose shape and perspective. "The distance between one side of the nose and the other," he wrote, "is like the Sahara." Later, in an effort to grasp the whole, his sculptures began to shrink until they became so small that they would fall apart at the touch of his knife. Finally, his figures began to seem real to him only when they were long and slender. "And it is almost there," says Giacometti, "where I am today...