Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the doctors operated for what they felt certain was complicated umbilical hernia, they were amazed to find that the patient's self-diagnosis of "knifelike" pains had been literally accurate: there was actually a nine-inch table knife in his sigmoid. the curve of the intestine leading to the rectum...
...police ambush at Madill, Okla. Eva surrendered meekly-the pistol was unloaded. "I was tired of school," she said, "and I decided to be an outlaw." ¶ At Bangor, Me., 14-year-old Francis Edwin Varney was charged with murdering his 12-year-old sister with a sharp kitchen knife. ¶ In The Bronx, three teen-age Negro girls, members of a gang known as the "Fivies," were charged with mugging a shopkeeper named Samuel Flamenbaum. Said he: one girl crooked an arm around his neck, choked and held him, while the other two stole a pair of shoes...
...find it as much fun as their elders will. The picture's chief excitement is Yvonne (Salome, Where She Danced) de Carlo, a vigorous, shapely actress who looks equally luscious in sequins or a fringed doeskin skirt. Minor causes of excitement: horse-chases, barroom brawls, shootings, knife-throwing and a baby teetering over a precipice at the end of a fallen tree. Frontier Gal oversteps the bounds of conventional horse-opera morality by including a kissing marathon and several rough-&-tumble bedroom scenes...
...Chicago, police found the naked body of a stenographer named Frances Brown lying in a hotel bathroom with a 12-inch bread knife through her neck. Above her, scrawled in lipstick, was the legend: "For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I camnot [cannot] control myself...
...U.S.S.R. took full advantage of the peoples in its southern states whose cousins live across the border in Iran. Azerbaijan's knife-wearing Kurds and ebullient Armenians spill over into adjoining countries (see map). Its 700,000 Kurds have kin in Turkey and British-controlled Iraq. Its 65,000 Armenians identify themselves with Armenians in Turkey and in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Precept and propaganda had already aroused a strong separatist urge among Iran's Armenians. At any moment blood might call to blood across the boundaries. In skilled Soviet hands, this interplay of nationalisms would...