Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knife Wounds. In 1932, Marga decided to visit forbidden Mecca. Without further ado, she divorced her count and married a devout Moslem. As the couple started on their pilgrimage to the Holy City, her husband's tribe-resentful of his marriage to an infidel-kidnaped them both. For weeks Marga was held captive in the mountains. Then one day her sheik was found poisoned. The Moslems promptly found Marga guilty and ordered her stoned to death. Only the intervention of Ibn Saud saved her life...
...Denver, Don Gallegos watched his wife scrape off fingernail polish with a paring knife, said, "I bet you're afraid to stick me," ended up with a deep gash across his chest...
...stuck in his throat, choked & choked. His father banged him futilely on the back, then yelled for a doctor. Luckily, there was one in the house -Tommy's uncle. Dr. Thomas A. Stanley (a postgraduate surgery student) saw that Tommy was strangling. He seized a kitchen carving knife; there was no time to sterilize it, nor for an anesthetic. While Papa and Mama held Tommy flat on the living room couch, Dr. Stanley swiftly cut open his windpipe, used a safety pin as a spring to keep the hole open. Air reached Tommy's lungs; he began...
Canadian table manners bothered her too: "I've never seen our slum children eating the way theirs do-stuffing food in their mouths with their fingers. Yet when I ate with my knife they criticized me." Furthermore, her Canadian relations never had herring for Sunday breakfast. Furthermore, Canadian girls "don't have complexions like our girls and they put too much rubbish on their faces...
...surgeon cuts two openings in the skull, one on each side above the temples, removes each bone button (to be replaced later), cuts and folds back the brain covering, the dura mater, then carefully slices through a measured section of the frontal lobes' white tissue. As the knife cuts the nerve fibers, the patient's tension visibly relaxes. He grows confused, dull, slow in speech, childish...