Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week we were ready to petition the powers that be for the knife concession at Cowie. We figured it was the surest money maker since cost plus percentage of cost contracts were in force. Now, however, that the dearth of knives has been overcome, we're thinking of asking for the opportunity of selling places in line during the 0800-0830 rush...
...third had a knife and some coins in his pocket but there was no name. If he ever had an identification tag around his neck, it would have been gone. He had no head or neck. He was and would continue to be an unknown-a nobody-at-all. We put them, one on the other, in the bottom of the boat, covered them with a canvas and started back. It was a long ride back...
...guide and control thought and conduct"; actually the correct translation was "to guide the thoughts and control the actions of students abroad." As for the training a student had to receive before going abroad-that was simply to teach him "how to eat soup, not to put his knife in his mouth, or to put salt in his coffee...
What Chicago Art Institute first-nighters saw was hardly pleasant. Hanging in six main galleries were some 800 brutal black & white engravings depicting assassinations, street accidents, atrocities, nightmares, scandals and conflagrations. Eufemio Martinez Murdering His Sister showed a frenzied, popeyed peon withdrawing a knife from the neck of a screaming woman. In Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting...
First Wingate built his force, partly from tenderfoot Tommies (many drafted from soft jobs back of the line), partly from native troops. He whipped them into a lean, knife-happy fighting force that last year slipped deep into Japanese lines, cut railroads, blew bridges, slipped out again two and a half months later...