Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, dancing teachers introduced the Dewey Dip, "a sedate jive with three samba steps dropping into a dip," and the Roosevelt Roger, a step with "lots of action, whirlabouts, and plenty of travel." Pitch Battle. In Philadelphia, the police broke up a fight between a man with a knife and a man swinging a guitar in his left hand, a mandolin in his right...
...Manchurian prison camp, had broken out, walked for ten days headed toward Russian territory. A police inspector had stopped them, been told they were stranded German flyers. They had led him into the country, ostensibly to examine their wrecked plane, there had killed him with a kitchen knife...
...worst that one V-1 flying bomb could do was done in London last week. It streaked down during the noonday rush on a shop-lined street. Its 2,240 lbs. of TNT blew apart a crowded restaurant, filled the air with knife-edged shards of splintered glass. The blast wrenched off the top deck of a bus, tore apart another bus. Passengers were dazed, their clothing afire...
...prostitutes. They pressed around the horrified women and girls, slapped them, spat at them. Male relatives came to the rescue, dispersed the screaming trulls. Then, from an official Government auto jumped skinny, blue-eyed Nicolasa Sevilla, owner of a cut-rate brothel. Threatening the older women with a knife, she spluttered filth at the prettier girls...
When last seen, Ziggy, wearing knife-pressed G.I. pants and brilliantly polished German boots, was driving away with a captain as his escort. In his pocket was the letter. It said: "The bearer of this letter, Private First Class Sigmund Simkowski, is the best damn barber you ever saw and the most useful man around a kitchen. Treat him right...