Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tempest over the world capital seethed and bubbled. One group of irate citizens banded together into a Committee for the Preservation of Greenwich-keep UNO out. Other citizens formed a smaller Greenwich Citizens Committee-bring UNO in. The Stamford Hills Association screamed like a porker that sees the knife. Some 10,000 other Stamford citizens signed petitions of delight...
Manhattan Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham had undergone, while conscious, two serious operations for dangerous blood vessel conditions in his legs. Due to the nature of his illness, scopolamine, the "truth drug," was given instead of an anesthetic. While the surgeon's knife cut into his flesh, Psychiatrist Wertham enthusiastically dictated to a hovering stenographer a stream-of-consciousness description of his mental processes...
Earlier in the week Eleanor Roosevelt had pleaded for frankness among the delegates; before the week was out their candor could be cut with a knife. Catastrophe did not result from plain speaking; issues everyone had dreaded were not so dreadful after all. UNO was going noisily but well...
...with ribaldry, spared little that was worth debunking. Nymphs were turned into hoydens, generals into cannibalistic monsters, politicians into poisonous toadstools. The plump Duke of Norfolk was pictured lying on a table like an apple dumpling, Tom Paine was made to look as thin and mean as a sharp knife, the Royal Georges were shown with the complacently stupid expressions of goldfish, and Lord Nelson's beautiful mistress, Lady Hamilton, was portrayed as a coarse, fat, dowdy Dido (see cut), mourning among the souvenirs of her lover's Nile victory, when he sailed away to fight another round...
...fourth day: "HAD NO KNIFE," HICSWA WROTE GIRL. The girl (good looking) was photographed with Joey's mother, and it was reported that "Mrs. Hicswa smiled for the first time...